Lee Porter, Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Solo Clinician, Owner, Telemental LLC

Lee Porter, Psych-NP, Telemental’s solo provider, is a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Lee’s career spans over 30 years of providing compassionate patient care as an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN).  He is a dual licensed APRN, both an adult nurse practitioner (NP) and a psychiatric and mental health clinical nurse specialist (CNS).  He holds board certification in both of these specialties. Lee has expertise in primary care, general psychiatry-neurology, and mental health. Lee’s work experience includes a variety of clinical practice settings from in-patient hospitals, institutional treatment, educational and research environments, to outpatient practices, from general psychiatry, primary care, pain management and substance abuse, to providing private, personalized mental healthcare.

Lee Porter obtained a BSN from Johns Hopkins University and an MSN from George Mason University – George Washington University Medical Center collaborative Nurse Practitioner (NP) program. He also has a BA in sociology from Franklin and Marshall College. He completed a post-masters APRN specialty program at the University of Virginia (UVA) for Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) certification in psychiatry and mental health. While at UVA, he also completed an internship in psycho-pharmacology under the supervision of a pharmacy professor PharmD. Lee later completed internships in psychophysiology, biofeedback, EEG analysis and neurofeedback, and eventually served as a mentor and teacher via the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA).  He has expertise in the monitoring of medical telemetry (such as EEG, EKG, capnometry) and computer-based assessments of attention.

Lee Porter previously owned and operated a private healthcare practice that specialized in the care of patients with stress related disorders, chronic pain conditions, brain injury, attention disorders, and anxiety spectrum disorders. He also provided clinical support services involving patient advocacy, disability determinations, organ transplant support, and legal consultations. He has taught at the university level in departments of nursing, psychology, and physiology. He developed and taught continuing education curriculum for nurses, psychologists and other health professionals.  More recently he provided direct clinical care in an out-patient clinic serving Oregon Health Plan patients and in a private practice specializing in chronic pain management.