Diana Lankenau received a B.A. in Psychology from Florida International University and a B.S. in Nursing from the University of Miami. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing with a speciality track as a Family Nurse Practitioner, a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Specialty Certificate and Nursing Education Certificate. She is a Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) and Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-BC).
She has proudly served her community by providing nursing services to children in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools and has worked providing psychiatric mental health services to children in a community mental health clinic in Yonkers, New York. She has worked across different age groups, with children, foster care parents, adolescents, and the elderly, and she also speaks Spanish. She has worked in the specialties of palliative care, psychiatric crisis stabilization; forensic nursing (jails, State and Federal prisons). Working in these settings has improved her skills in providing specialized care to those in need of mental health services. She is caring, thoughtful, listens to her patients and has a life-long passion for mental health advocacy.
