April Dvorak, PMHNP-BC

April Dvorak, PMHNP-BC, is a Board-Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and the founder of Head Well – Integrative Psychiatry, a mental health practice based in Eugene Oregon. She helped found and serves as the President of Projects on Purpose Inc (POPI), a nonprofit serving the seriously mentally ill.

A native of Houston, Texas, April started her academic journey at Texas A&M University, graduating in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences. She continued her education at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, where she studied undergraduate nursing in 2011. She worked as a nurse in the Neonatal ICU and then various psychiatric settings before returning to obtain her Master of Science in Nursing and board certification from the ANCC as a Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in 2017. 

She has extensive experience in inpatient and outpatient settings and a wide range of patient populations, including serious mental illness (SMI), corrections, forensic, adolescent, and geriatric psychiatry.

April moved to Eugene, Oregon in 2022 and served as an attending at Oregon State Hospital before leaving to start Head Well which has grown to employee more than a dozen people and serves hundreds of Oregonians in achieving their mental health goals. 

After years of practicing in the public sector and clunky, bureaucratic institutions, April wanted to build a model based on efficiency and long-term, sustainable solutions. She believes in making sense of things and working through tough problems. April started Head Well – Integrative Psychiatry in hopes of doing both.

Her clinical approach is integrative and functionally rooted. She is fascinated by how personality structure and emotional and behavior patterns account for much of how we view and interact with the world. People co-create their realities, and understanding oneself is the key to a cohesive, productive, and meaningful existence.

April is passionate about mental health advocacy and maintaining humanity, rationality, and integrity in psychiatry and social services. She loves to learn and recently obtained certificate from Integrative Psychiatric Institute (IPI) as a Ketamine Medical Provider.