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Channel Johnson is opening VGH Mental Health Services to respond to the community’s growing need for mental health services. Photo Provided
Channel Johnson Turns Her Struggles Into Helping Others
Nurse practitioner and native Tulsan Channel Johnson has opened a new telehealth service focusing on mental health. VGH Mental Health Services will address a growing need for mental health services in the community. She is offering these services after overcoming her own personal struggles stemming from a narcissistic relationship, financial exploitation, and betrayal.
“I experienced some severe mental illness myself by circumstances that we can’t control, and I had to fight my way out of how to survive. I didn’t have anything but God, and God basically told me to go back to school,” Johnson said. “I discovered that healing hurts…I felt the pain, and I said, I don’t want anybody else to feel this pain.”
After 15 years of nursing, most recently in psychiatric mental health services, Johnson said it was time to open her own practice to offer help to others.
“Mental health is probably more needed than ever, just because of the way the world is going… there are not enough mental health providers,” she said.
VGH Mental Health Services serves individuals aged six to 65 years of age in the treatment of a variety of mental health conditions, including trauma, depression, anxiety disorders, and mood disorders, including PTSD, OCD, and ADHD.
Johnson is a board-certified nurse practitioner who has served the medical industry in Tulsa for nearly 15 years. VGH, which is an acronym named for two of her children, Victory and Grace, offers telehealth services for psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and other treatment modalities. Johnson said she has a mission to offer hope and healing to everyone who seeks care under the stated mission.
Her mission is “Because Jesus is victorious, he has provided us with victory, grace, and healing,” Johnson said.
During her college career, Johnson participated in NCAA Division I, playing basketball at the University of Alabama and the University of Tulsa.
As a registered nurse, Johnson has worked in intensive care units for 10 years, specializing in neurological, trauma, stroke, and general surgical units at local hospitals in Tulsa and surrounding areas.
In 2019, she obtained an MSN from Maryville University as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), graduating summa cum laude. She received a Post- Masters Certificate as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) in 2022, graduating summa cum laude. Johnson has also attended Harvest Time Prayer Ministry Bible College for three years, focusing on intercessory prayer and biblical understanding.
She is a member of the American Nurses Association (ANA), Association of Oklahoma Nurse Practitioners (AONP), American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), and American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN). She has three young children, ages four, five, and 11, and she enjoys sharing her life with them.
To contact VGH Telehealth, email info@vghmentalhealthservices.com, visit the website, vhgmentalhealthservices.com, or call (918) 428-8713.
