Denine Baldor, PMHNP-BC – Psychiatrist in Oakland, CA | Mindpath Health
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Denine has over ten years of experience and is passionate about the destigmatization of mental illness. She guides her patients to learn about their motivations and core beliefs and encourages them to improve their connections with others. Denine embraces family and personal history, biology, social environment, and support when caring for each patient’s unique needs. She has experience working with incarcerated individuals with chronic mental illness. Denine enjoys working on home improvement projects, hiking with her rescue dog, Milton, and skiing in the Sierras.
- Master of Science (MS) – Yale University
- Specialty Boards: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner – American Nurses Credentialing Center
Areas of Focus
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Major depressive disorder (MDD)
- Panic attacks/disorders
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Mood disorders
- Bipolar disorders
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Stress management
- Trauma/post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Sleep problems
- Psychiatric consultation
- Addiction disorders
- Alzheimer’s/dementia
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
- Bariatric assessment for surgery
- Co-occuring conditions
- Compulsive gambling
- Conduct/disruptive disorders
- Eating disorders
- End-of-life issues
- Gender-affirming mental health care
- HIV/AIDS-related care
- LGBTQIA+
- Men’s mental health
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum mental health
- Psychotic disorders
- Sexual disorders
- Women’s mental health
What patients are saying
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As always, a great experience. I am very comfortable with my Mindpath Health professional, whom I have seen for over a year. I trust her implicitly.
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Denine Baldor is very respectful and helpful with our conversation, always concerned with my health (both psychical and mental).
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Denine is kind, empathetic, and authentic. Even through Zoom I really feel listened to.
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My everyday life has been positively impacted after seeing Denine Baldor.
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My practitioner values my lived experience and is more knowledgeable about my physical health problems than a number of doctors that I am seeing.
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Denine Baldor understands and is intuitive and helpful. She acknowledged some fear and anxiety were legitimate. That weakened the power of the negativity. Thank you!
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Positively healing.
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Such a great and helpful meeting with Denine. My life is starting to improve and I’m very excited to continue.
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This is the best psychiatry experience I’ve had in 20 years. I am very happy.
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This was an excellent appointment as usual! We got a lot accomplished, impressive! I feel grateful to have Denine Baldor as my clinician.
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Appointment was good.
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Denine is always very pleasant and understanding and offers good advice on medications. I feel lucky to have her as my nurse practitioner.
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Denine is wonderful to work with and extremely knowledgeable.
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Everything went smoothly.
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Everything went well, fine, and comfortable.
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I always enjoy the short period of time with Denine Baldor. We cover a lot of territory in a short amount of time. I love her attentive listening skills and her ability to make good suggestions relating to my mental health.
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I love Denine Baldor. She is personable and professional.
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The entire office staff, and my clinician Denine, were helpful and supportive. They were knowledgeable about answering all my questions. I really appreciate this location.
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Denine Baldor is a fabulous clinician. Knowledgeable and personable!
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Denine Baldor is so knowledgeable and thoughtful. She is the best and most thourough provider I have ever seen.
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Denine continues to be a wonderful practitioner.
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Denine is a very good fit for my needs- she listens to me and makes excellent suggestions. I am very pleased with her services
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Denine is the best! Great consult/info.
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Everything was fun and helpful respectful knowledgeable happy.
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I get along really well with my therapist. I always feel that she has valuable information to share with me with regards to my problems. I just love her.
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I was very pleased with my entire experience and am looking forward to working with my provider.
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NP Denine Baldor is a good, kind, well-spoken provider. She always makes me feel heard and validated. Our sessions are always productive in a sense that we work through the issues that I am dealing with and always feel better after we have talked.