Our Bellevue-area practice offers integrated psychiatric care for adults — anxiety, ADHD, depression, OCD, perinatal and perimenopausal mood, and trauma, sleep, and burnout. Care is delivered in person from our Papillion office or by secure Nebraska telehealth. The first visit is 60 minutes, new patients are typically scheduled within one to two weeks, and we are in-network with Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska, UnitedHealthcare (including UMR), Midlands Choice, and Nebraska Total Care (Medicaid), with transparent self-pay rates for anyone out of network.
What makes the practice unusual is its dual-certified clinical model. Our founder, Kim Wohlwend, MSN, APRN, is a board-certified Family and Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, which means we can look at mental-health symptoms alongside the medical factors that frequently shape them — thyroid function, perimenopause, sleep, chronic pain, metabolic health — without bouncing you between providers who do not talk to one another. Treatment is medication when appropriate, chosen in context of your whole health picture, paired with CBT-informed strategies and therapy referrals to ERP-trained, trauma-trained, or perinatal-trained therapists when deeper psychotherapy is the right next step.
Bellevue is Nebraska's oldest city and home to roughly 65,000 people, including longtime residents near Fontenelle Forest, young families in Twin Creek and newer subdivisions, Bellevue University students, civilian professionals who commute to Omaha, and a large military-connected community tied to Offutt Air Force Base. We see all of these patients. If you are military-connected, there is a dedicated section further down on what that means for privacy, clearances, Tricare, and coordination with VA or base resources — but most of this page is about the clinical care itself, because that is what you are actually looking for.
Who We Help
What we treat in Bellevue-area adults.
We treat the full range of adult mental-health conditions. Below are the six areas that make up most of our care. Each links to a detailed condition page further down the page.
Anxiety
Generalized anxiety, panic, social anxiety, and high-functioning anxiety — the "I look fine on the outside but I cannot turn my mind off" version that often comes with perfectionism, overworking, and poor sleep. Treatment is medication when appropriate plus practical, CBT-informed strategies you can use between visits.
Adult ADHD
Adult ADHD evaluation and medication management for inattentive, hyperactive, and combined presentations — often recognized late in adults whose coping strategies finally stopped working under the load of a new job, a new baby, or a big life transition. Stimulant and non-stimulant options are both on the table.
Depression
Major depression, persistent depressive disorder, and depression that co-occurs with medical or hormonal issues. We treat it directly, with medication when indicated, attention to sleep and lifestyle factors, and therapy referrals when deeper psychotherapy is the right next step. Postpartum depression and depression following major life transitions are common presentations here.
OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, including contamination, checking, harm, and relationship subtypes, plus health anxiety / illness anxiety that looks OCD-adjacent. Medication (typically higher-dose SSRIs) is one piece; the gold-standard psychotherapy is Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), which we coordinate with ERP-trained therapists in our referral network.
Perinatal & Perimenopausal Mood
Pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopausal mood and anxiety. Careful medication decisions around conception, pregnancy, and breastfeeding, plus attention to the hormonal-axis piece of perimenopausal mood change that is often missed when mental-health and women's-health care are siloed. Isolation — from family, from support, from sleep — is treated as the clinical factor it is.
Trauma, Sleep & Burnout
PTSD, moral injury, trauma-related sleep disruption, insomnia, and burnout. We do not provide the prolonged-exposure or EMDR psychotherapy that is first-line for PTSD — we refer for that — but we can treat sleep, nightmares (prazosin, when appropriate), and co-occurring depression and anxiety with medication. Burnout in high-demand careers and dual-career households is a common reason patients come in.
How Care Works
Three steps to starting care.
Comprehensive evaluation
A 60-minute first visit covers psychiatric and medical history, current medications, sleep, substances, and the life-context pieces — work, family, major transitions, support network — that shape what treatment should look like for you. In person in Papillion or by Nebraska telehealth.
Individualized plan
Medication when appropriate, chosen with careful attention to side effects, co-occurring medical conditions, and — when relevant — pregnancy, breastfeeding, or occupational considerations. CBT-informed strategies you can apply between visits. Therapy referrals to ERP-trained, trauma-trained, or perinatal-trained therapists when deeper psychotherapy is indicated.
Close follow-up
First follow-up usually 2 to 4 weeks after starting medication; after that, at the cadence you and your clinician decide is right. Direct clinician access between visits through the secure portal — no triage layer between you and the person who knows your case.
Pricing & Insurance
Transparent pricing.
Insurance
- Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska
- UnitedHealthcare (including UMR)
- Midlands Choice
- Nebraska Total Care (Medicaid)
Self-Pay
- Clear, flat pricing. No subscription.
- Good-faith estimate on request.
- Out of network with Tricare, Medicare, and Cigna.
A note on Tricare: we are not in-network with Tricare (Prime, Select, or For Life). The next section explains why, lays out the usual alternatives (Military OneSource, Tricare-participating community providers, VA, self-pay), and what it looks like to see us through a spouse's commercial plan or self-pay instead.
For Military-Connected Patients
Care for military-connected families in Bellevue.
Offutt Air Force Base sits inside Bellevue's city limits, hosts U.S. Strategic Command and the 55th Wing, and shapes daily life for tens of thousands of service members, spouses, dependents, and veterans across Sarpy County. Our Papillion office is about 10 minutes from the Offutt main gate, and a meaningful share of our Bellevue patients are military-connected. If that is you, a few specifics matter enough to put in writing.
Mental-health patterns in military life
Deployment anxiety does not turn off when the duty phone rings. PCS moves every two to three years dismantle support networks right after families have finally built one. Postpartum spouses often navigate a newborn 1,200 miles from grandparents and siblings. Dual-career military couples burn out. Veterans carry legacies of earlier deployments. These patterns — deployment stress, relocation grief, spouse isolation, operational burnout, post-PCS depression — are clinical, they are treatable, and they are among the most common reasons military-connected patients come to us.
Tricare, honestly — and the alternatives
We are not in-network with Tricare (Prime, Select, or For Life), and we do not plan to be. We would rather tell you honestly than have you book and get surprised later. If Tricare is your primary coverage and cost is the priority, these are usually the better paths:
Military OneSource offers up to 12 free non-medical counseling sessions per issue for active-duty service members and their families — a sensible first step for deployment stress, relationship issues, parenting, or grief that does not yet require medication. A Tricare-participating community provider, which you can locate through the Humana Military directory (Tricare East covers Nebraska), will be the most affordable path for ongoing psychiatric medication management under Tricare. For VA-enrolled veterans, the VA Nebraska Western Iowa Health Care System in Omaha has specialized PTSD programs, a women-veterans health clinic, and integrated primary-care mental health. Offutt's Mental Health Flight and embedded behavioral-health resources serve active-duty members directly.
If, after looking at those, you still want a private psychiatric NP outside the Tricare network — for continuity, for integrated mental-and-physical-health care, for the ability to coordinate hormones and thyroid alongside mental-health medication, or because you want records outside the military health system — we accept Aetna, BCBS of Nebraska, UnitedHealthcare (including UMR), Midlands Choice, and Nebraska Total Care (Medicaid). Many military-connected patients use a civilian spouse's commercial plan, or pay our flat self-pay rates ($300 initial / $150 follow-up).
Privacy, security clearances, and your command
Routine outpatient psychiatric treatment — medication for anxiety, depression, ADHD, perinatal mood, insomnia — generally does not jeopardize a security clearance. SF-86 Question 21 explicitly excludes counseling related to marital, family, or grief issues, combat-related stress, and sexual-assault-related counseling. What tends to matter for adjudicators is an untreated condition that affects judgment, reliability, or behavior. Getting appropriate care is usually the safer answer, not the riskier one. That said, specific medications (particularly stimulants for ADHD) have real operational implications for pilots, aircrew, and certain cleared billets — we discuss those openly, in specifics, without manufacturing alarm. We do not share clinical information with your command, chain of supervision, or security officer without your written consent, subject to the standard narrow legal exceptions (duty-to-warn, mandated reporting, court order) that apply to any provider, civilian or uniformed.
VA coordination and telehealth for deployed families
We are not a VA facility, but we coordinate referrals to the VA for eligible veterans when VA-specific programs are a better fit — particularly specialized PTSD programs, service-connection evaluations, and women-veterans care. Many veterans see us privately through commercial insurance or self-pay while staying engaged with the VA for other care. Nebraska telehealth is particularly useful for spouses holding a household together during a deployment or TDY. For the deployed service member themselves, state licensure ties us to Nebraska — Military OneSource tele-counseling or on-location military mental-health resources are usually the right paths while deployed.
Deep Dives
Learn more about each condition.
Each of the six conditions we treat has its own detailed page. Our Papillion pages are our canonical, in-person-from-Papillion deep dives. If you prefer an Omaha-framed view — for example, if you commute to Omaha for work or prefer telehealth from an Omaha perspective — the Omaha variants cover the same clinical ground with different local context.
Anxiety
Generalized, panic, social, and high-functioning anxiety. SSRI and non-SSRI options; honest benzodiazepine policy.
Adult ADHD
Diagnostic evaluation, stimulant and non-stimulant options. Honest discussion of occupational trade-offs for cleared personnel.
Depression
Major depression, persistent depressive disorder, postpartum depression, and treatment-resistant cases.
OCD
Contamination, checking, harm, and relationship OCD. Medication plus ERP therapy referral.
Perinatal & Perimenopausal Mood
Pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopausal mood and anxiety. Medication safety in breastfeeding; hormonal-axis awareness.
Trauma, Sleep & Burnout
PTSD medication support (we refer for ERP/EMDR/PE therapy), sleep, nightmares, insomnia, burnout recovery.
More about our clinician on the Our Team page, and information about therapy partners we refer to on the Provider Partnerships page. The overall service hub is Mental Health Care.
Who we serve around Bellevue.
We see patients in person at our Papillion office, roughly 10 minutes from most Bellevue neighborhoods and the Offutt main gate, and by secure telehealth anywhere in Nebraska. Common patient origins include:
A note on Iowa: mental-health care from our practice is Nebraska-only. Council Bluffs residents and other Iowa-side patients — including military families with Iowa addresses — need an Iowa-licensed provider for mental-health services. Our non-mental-health services (hormone therapy, weight-loss, online prescriptions) are available in more states.
FAQ
Common questions from Bellevue and Offutt families.
Do you accept Tricare?
No. We are not in-network with Tricare (Prime, Select, or For Life). The most cost-effective path if you have Tricare is usually a Tricare-participating community provider, which you can locate through the Humana Military directory. Military OneSource offers 12 free non-medical counseling sessions per issue for active-duty families. If you prefer private psychiatric-NP care outside the Tricare network, we see patients through commercial insurance or self-pay.
Do you see active-duty Air Force personnel from Offutt?
Yes, with a caveat about payment (we are not Tricare, so it's commercial insurance via a spouse's plan, or self-pay) and a caveat about confidentiality (we do not share information with your command without your written consent, subject to narrow legal exceptions). We discuss security-clearance and flying-class considerations openly. Many active-duty patients come to us specifically because they want their records outside the military health system.
Can you help if my service member is deployed?
Yes, for the spouse and family. Deployment anxiety, insomnia, parenting alone, postpartum care far from family, and kids' adjustment issues are common reasons we see military spouses during deployments. Nebraska telehealth is particularly useful for holding a household together alone. For the deployed service member, our state licensure means we cannot see them outside Nebraska — Military OneSource tele-counseling and on-location military mental-health resources are the usual paths there.
What are the security-clearance implications of psychiatric care?
For most routine care — medication for anxiety, depression, ADHD, insomnia, perinatal mood — the answer is very little, and untreated conditions are usually the bigger risk. SF-86 Question 21 specifically excludes marital/family/grief counseling and combat-related stress. What adjudicators care about is a current condition that affects judgment, reliability, or behavior, typically when untreated. That said, stimulants for ADHD and certain medications have real operational implications for pilots, aircrew, and specific billets. We discuss these in specifics, honestly, without manufacturing alarm.
Do you coordinate with the VA?
We are not a VA facility, but we coordinate with the VA when it's appropriate. If a veteran's care is best delivered through the VA Nebraska Western Iowa Health Care System — particularly for specialized PTSD programs, service-connection evaluations, or women-veterans clinics — we will say so and help with referral. Many veterans see us privately while remaining engaged with the VA for other care.
Do you see veterans?
Yes. Veterans come to us through commercial insurance (Aetna, BCBS, UHC, Midlands Choice) or self-pay ($300 initial / $150 follow-up). If VA care is clearly the better fit for what you need, we will tell you that honestly.
How quickly can I be seen?
Most new patients are scheduled within 1 to 2 weeks. The first visit is 60 minutes, available in person in Papillion or by Nebraska telehealth.
Is your office close to Offutt AFB?
Yes. Our Papillion office at 131 N Washington Street, Suite A is roughly 10 minutes by car from the Offutt main gate and most Bellevue neighborhoods. For patients who prefer to skip the drive, telehealth works anywhere in Nebraska.
Do you see Bellevue residents by telehealth?
Yes. Nebraska-licensed telehealth is available for any patient physically located in Nebraska, including Bellevue, Offutt housing, and surrounding Sarpy County. Telehealth is often the right fit for busy schedules, dependent care, and spouses managing a household during deployment.
What insurance do you accept besides Tricare?
Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska, UnitedHealthcare (including UMR), Midlands Choice, and Nebraska Total Care (Medicaid). We are out of network with Tricare, Medicare, and Cigna. Self-pay is $300 for the 60-minute initial visit and $150 for follow-ups.
Care built around your Bellevue life.
Integrated psychiatric care for Bellevue residents, Offutt AFB spouses and veterans, and Sarpy County families. Honest about Tricare, thoughtful about clearances, and 10 minutes up Highway 370 from the main gate — or anywhere in Nebraska by telehealth.
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