The Carter vision
Carter Health Group connects clinically serious adolescent and adult psychiatry, addiction care, women’s mental health, recovery continuity, enhanced private coordination, and broader access without asking patients to keep starting over.
Our vision
Mental health, physical health, substance use, recovery, sleep, stress, trauma, family, work, culture, and daily life do not arrive in separate rooms. Carter care considers how those realities connect.
Your whole story belongs in your care.Our mission
Carter Health Group exists to reimagine whole health through intentional, connected care, elevated clinical standards, and meaningful outcomes—delivered with expertise, compassion, and an unwavering commitment to seeing the whole person.
What patients are often left carrying
A psychiatric provider who does not address substance use.
An addiction program that cannot continue long-term psychiatric care.
A discharge plan that ends before stable follow-up begins.
Multiple medications with no clear explanation of the overall plan.
The burden of coordinating every provider, record, pharmacy, and next step alone.
A need for privacy that makes it harder to ask for help.
The Carter difference
See the person, the environment, the medical context, and the lived experience—not only the diagnosis. Your symptoms are understood within your health, treatment history, substance use, sleep, stress, trauma, work, family, culture, strengths, and goals.
Use evidence with context, explain decisions clearly, reassess over time, and recognize when another type or level of care is needed. You should understand the clinical why—not simply leave with instructions.
Reduce the gaps between settings, clinicians, medications, records, families, and the next step. With your permission, the people supporting your care should be able to work from the same story.
Protect confidentiality, remove stigma, and make care feel intentional rather than transactional. Greater discretion should strengthen care—not isolate you from the support you need.
Our values
We see the person beyond the diagnosis.
We bring together the parts of health and care that work better together.
Evidence, expertise, safety, and sound clinical judgment guide everything we do.
People deserve to feel heard, respected, understood, and genuinely cared for.
We act with honesty, transparency, responsibility, and accountability.
We continually rethink how care can be better designed, delivered, and connected.
We hold ourselves to a higher standard because the people we serve deserve nothing less.
We lead with empathy and serve with heart.
The Carter Continuum™
The continuum connects focused programs around the whole person so each next step can build on the care that came before it.
Focused entry points help adults, adolescents, and women understand symptoms within the full context of health, history, culture, relationships, responsibilities, and stage of life.
Mental health and substance use are considered within one clinical picture so recovery care does not separate concerns that affect one another.
Focused follow-through protects progress after intensive treatment, hospitalization, or another important care transition.
Distinct pathways offer enhanced discretion and coordination or a limited reduced-fee route while protecting one Carter standard of dignity, clinical reasoning, privacy, and follow-through.
The Carter whole-health family
Carter Clarity™, Carter Integrate™, Carter Beyond™, Carter Resilience™, Carter Seasons™, and Carter Signature™ provide distinct ways to begin care. Carter Access™ may create a reduced-fee pathway across eligible programs.
One standard of dignity
Carter Signature™ offers greater discretion, navigation, and coordination for people who need it. Carter Access™ provides a limited reduced-fee pathway across eligible programs based on financial need and practice capacity.
Different pathways may have different structures, but the expectation remains the same: serious clinical reasoning, respect, privacy, honest boundaries, and meaningful follow-through.
years of clinical expertise shaped from bedside care to psychiatric and addiction treatment, recovery systems, Director of Nursing leadership and Chief Nursing Officer leadership
Why this practice is different
Rhonda Carter, MSN, APRN-CNP, PMHNP-BC has worked across psychiatric care, addiction treatment, detoxification, residential care, case management, nursing leadership, and executive clinical operations.
She has seen what happens before admission, during stabilization, at discharge, and when a patient returns to daily life. Carter Health Group is built around closing those gaps.
Read Rhonda’s backgroundCare with honest boundaries
Carter Health Group provides outpatient telehealth care. Patients requiring emergency, inpatient, detoxification, residential or other facility-based treatment will be directed to an appropriate level of care.
Care, connected around you.™
Explore the Carter program that best reflects your needs and begin with one thoughtful, whole-person plan.