Loria Rice is a board-certified nurse practitioner.  She started her career working as an aide with Home Instead Senior Care as a personal care assistant 12 years ago and decided that her passion for caring for others should be expanded into more in-depth training.  She became a registered nurse and followed her dream of becoming a nurse practitioner, earning her Masters Degree from South University.  She has experience in the holistic care of adult and geriatric patients in a long-term care setting that focus on the treatment of depression, anxiety, delirium, dementia, bipolar depression, and insomnia.  Loria has immediate family members that struggle with anxiety and agoraphobia that drive her passion to help others with mental health care. She believes in the compassionate holistic care of patients, focusing on evidence-based practice, and is promotes patient advocacy. In her free time you might find her cooking, playing piano, singing, or riding her Harley-Davidson motorcycle.