“One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” – Linda Poindexter
I became passionate about helping individuals navigate their mental health and addiction recovery through my work at Community Bridges, Inc., where I served as a Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in Substance Use Disorders. Witnessing the resilience of individuals facing addiction and mental health challenges inspired me to create a space where compassionate, evidence-based care is the priority.
In 2020, I founded Samaria Behavioral Health Center, a judgment-free space where clients feel heard, supported, and empowered. I bring seven years of experience as a Psychiatric Addiction Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, working with individuals facing substance use disorders, trauma, depression, anxiety, bipolar, and ADHD.
I understand that healing isn’t linear, and I tailor treatment to each person’s unique needs, whether that means medication management, therapy, or a combination of approaches. My practice offers both in-person sessions—where you can settle into the world’s softest sofa—and virtual visits for convenience.
If you’re ready to take the next step toward stability and wellness, I’m here to support you with understanding, expertise, and an unwavering commitment to your recovery.
Andrea Hinton is a board-certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who is passionate about helping children, adolescents, and adults achieve improved mental wellness and a greater sense of balance in their lives. She provides compassionate, evidence-based psychiatric care with a focus on building strong therapeutic relationships and creating individualized treatment plans tailored to each patient’s unique needs and goals.
Andrea has a special interest in treating anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, and PTSD. She understands that mental health challenges can affect every aspect of life, including relationships, work, school, self-esteem, and overall well-being. Her goal is to provide a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental environment where patients feel heard, understood, and empowered throughout their treatment journey.
Her treatment approach combines medication management, education, and practical strategies to help patients better understand their symptoms and develop tools to manage life’s challenges effectively. Andrea believes in treating the whole person rather than just a diagnosis and works collaboratively with patients to promote long-term emotional health and resilience.
Andrea‘s clinical experience includes outpatient psychiatry, telehealth services, intensive outpatient programs (IOP), crisis stabilization, and the treatment of co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. She is committed to helping patients move beyond symptom management and toward meaningful, lasting improvements in their quality of life.
Whether someone is seeking support for anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, or life stressors, Andrea strives to provide compassionate care that fosters healing, growth, and hope.
With more than 20 years of experience in behavioral and mental health care, Robert is a highly skilled and compassionate clinical social worker who provides evidence-based, trauma-informed therapy to adults, adolescents, couples, and families. He has worked with individuals from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds across outpatient, intensive outpatient (IOP), hospital, group therapy, and telehealth settings.
His primary specialties include men’s mental health, ADHD, trauma, and PTSD, with extensive experience treating anger, anxiety, depression, autism-related concerns, substance use disorders, dual diagnosis, mood disorders, OCD, grief and loss, codependency, impulse-control concerns, relationship and peer difficulties, stress, and thought disorders. He also has substantial experience helping clients address family-of-origin trauma, communication difficulties, life transitions, and complex relationship concerns.
Robert is EMDR-trained, including Level 2 training, and has extensive experience using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and other therapeutic approaches to help individuals heal from trauma and distressing life experiences. His background includes providing trauma-focused and restorative services to U.S. military veterans experiencing PTSD, as well as counseling individuals and families affected by grief, trauma, abuse, substance use, and co-occurring mental health conditions.
Throughout his career, he has provided individual, couples, family, and group psychotherapy, worked with both male and female clients, and treated general mental health as well as serious mental illness.
His therapeutic approach emphasizes creating a respectful, supportive environment where clients can better understand longstanding patterns, strengthen emotional regulation and communication, process trauma, improve relationships, and develop practical strategies for meaningful and lasting change.
The goal of Samaria Behavioral Health Center (SBHC) is to improve mental health access in our community and help individuals who struggle with psychiatric disorders and substance use disorders.
At SBHC, we treat our clients the same way we would treat our own family. We will make sure to do everything in our power to treat our patients so that they can reach their full potential.
The client is an integral part of the decision-making process, and therefore should feel safe and comfortable to explain their own views on their treatment plan. Every patient has their own unique path to recovery and at SBHC, we provide an environment that promotes a patient’s self-confidence throughout recovery.
At SBHC, we understand how difficult it may be to open up about psychiatric disorders and substance abuse problems, therefore we want to emphasize that we are a judgement free zone. No matter what your past entails, we promise to treat you with the utmost respect and sincerity to foster a healing environment for growth for our patients.
At SBHC we value diversity and will always provide a safe and compassionate environment for everyone, regardless of your race, gender, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs.
