Holly Viloria, RN, MSN, FNP, PMHNP-BC

Family & Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
CEO / Practice Owner

Holly is the CEO and owner of Laguna Family Health Center, Inc. She is dual licensed as a family nurse practitioner (FNP) and psychiatric / mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP). As an NP with 20+ years of experience, Holly offers expert and integrative mental health care to her clients and to our community. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from UC Santa Barbara, a Master of Science in Nursing/Family Nurse Practitioner from University of San Francisco, a Post-Master’s Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner from CSU Long Beach and has done numerous advanced trainings in areas such as advanced psychopharmacology, integrative mental health, and women’s mental health/perinatal psychiatry. In addition, Holly is committed to serving her community and also provides mental health services to homeless adults in Orange County in her work with the Friendship Shelter.

Holly has experience in a multitude of settings such as: inpatient psychiatry/hospital-based care, outpatient/private practice, chemical dependency/addiction medicine, primary care, homeless and community-based care, legal/forensics, secondary and college school health and emergency/crisis settings. In her vast experience in these settings, she saw the need in the community for higher quality mental health services and in 2009 she opened Laguna Psych, Inc; one of the first multidisciplinary nurse-practitioner owned group practices in the nation. In 2016, she renamed the practice to Laguna Family Health Center to further reduce the stigma of mental health care and is proud of the model that the practice offers and the reputation that it’s built in the community.

As a dual-licensed NP, Holly is able to diagnose, treat, and prescribe medications in addition to offering expert evidence-based consultations while considering both medical and mental health factors and in coordination of care with other clinicians. She is able to recommend traditional psychopharmacology when needed or assist clients in reducing medications, review complementary alternative medicine options, order and interpret pharmacogenetic and regular lab tests, discuss nutrition and lifestyle changes, and offer psychotherapy within sessions or referrals to other clinicians to work together. The care that is offered is personalized, client-centered, integrative and strengths-based, rather than the traditional mental health focus on just diagnosis and disorder.

Holly’s specialty areas are vast and she is able to assess clients for most mental health conditions due to her years of experience. In her expert consultation role, her clinical areas of specialty include mood disorders, women’s mental health (pregnancy, postpartum, role of hormones in mental health), adolescent mental health and integrative mental health. Holly sees adolescents (age 12+) and adults and her practice style is one of collaboration with patients and she focuses on teaching, health promotion, and integrative care. She often incorporates brief therapy into her work with clients and utilizes several different styles including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), solution-focused, brief trauma focused and mindfulness to form an individual treatment plan with the client. Holly believes strongly in empowering her clients to take an active role in their physical and mental health, with a focus on a client’s strengths and innate capacity to heal. For clients that are already connected with a therapist and are in need of a clinician for medications, Holly will work closely in collaboration with the therapist for the best solution-focused care of the client.