Clayton "Clay" Taylor is a board-certified Nurse Practitioner with years of experience managing and treating depression, anxiety, insomnia, and ADD/ADHD in adolescents and adults. He earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Nursing on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington. Clay is passionate about actively combating the stigmas that society places upon depression and anxiety, and in providing the best care that he can for those battling these illnesses. His approach is a humanistic, or values-based philosophy, where he believes in treating the patient as a whole (mind, body, and spirit), not just a series of parts. In his free time Clay enjoys the outdoors, photography, filmmaking, traveling, listening to and playing music, spending time with his kids, and is actively working on becoming fluent in Spanish.
You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human. — Lori Deschene
If you are in emotional distress, here are some resources for immediate help: