Katie Sullivan, MSN, APRN-FPA, FNP-C

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Katie Sullivan is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner who earned her Masters in Nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago.  She serves as Modern Compassionate Care’s integrative primary care provider with specializations in medical cannabis and psychedelic treatment modalities. Katie brings previous clinical experience in oncology, women’s health, mental health, and family medicine, where she worked with people of all ages to manage diverse health challenges and chronic conditions. Her philosophy for nursing care is client-centered, evidence-based, and trauma-informed, with an emphasis on educating and empowering patients to chart their own path to wellness. Since founding Modern Compassionate Care, she has worked with thousands of patients and their families, assisting them to utilize medical cannabis and  psychedelic therapy safely and successfully. 

Katie believes that both medical cannabis and psychedelic assisted therapy can be breakthrough  treatments for many people who are not getting adequate symptom relief through traditional treatments.  She is a proud advocate that these therapeutic options should be a first-line alternatives, not last resorts for people - especially when many commonly prescribed drugs have potentially dangerous or deadly side effects. 

Katie is an active member of the American Cannabis Nurses Association, the Society of Cannabis Clinicians, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the International Association of Psychedelic Nurses, Chicago NORML, the Illinois Psychedelic Society, and the Illinois Cannabis Equity Coalition. She is honored to serve as an appointed member of the Illinois Department of Health's Medical Cannabis Advisory Board since 2023.

As a licensed clinical professional counselor and psychedelic assisted therapy provider, Beth is available to help educate and support our patients on their journey to wellness.  Beth earned her Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University.   She has trained to provide therapy and supportive services to adults, adolescents and children in both private practice and non profit settings.  She holds a certification in psychedelic assisted therapy from the Integrative Psychiatry Institute.  Beth is passionate about challenging the stigma around psychedelics and cannabis and helping clients determine for themselves what makes them feel well.