Deana Flynn is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with 14 years of clinical experience treating individuals across the lifespan. Her background includes inpatient psychiatry, emergency departments, crisis stabilization units, and outpatient care, equipping her with a deep understanding of complex psychiatric needs across developmental stages and life circumstances.

As the Founder and Clinical Director of Fortis Behavioral Health, Deana leads both patient care and practice strategy. She provides direct psychiatric treatment while also overseeing business operations, expanding access to care, supervising licensed providers, and mentoring students through preceptorship. Under her leadership, Fortis delivers an integrative care model that combines cutting-edge psychopharmacology, nutritional psychiatry, lifestyle interventions, and food-as-medicine principles. Her philosophy is grounded in the integration of mind, body, and spirit, supported by year-round continuing education in functional and integrative mental health.

Her practice is committed to diagnostic precision and personalized care, using genetic testing, lab analysis, and both subjective and objective clinical tools. Fortis Behavioral Health also associates with the Amen Clinics in Atlanta, allowing Deana to refer appropriate patients for brain SPECT imaging and to provide continuity of care for individuals referred from Amen Clinics.

Deana earned her Master of Science in Nursing from East Tennessee State University and her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Fayetteville State University.  She is currently completing certification as a Brain Health Professional through Amen University and is an active member of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, the American Nurses Association, and the Council of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses.