Meet the new Board members for 2025

Left to right: Nikki Behner and Patricia Wuertzer

Welcome to the newest members of the Lois Price Spratlen Foundation Board of Directors, Nikki Behner and Patricia Wuertzer, who joined the Board in January 2025.

Nikki Behner, DNP, ARNP, developed her practice into the Psychiatric Nurse Consulting & Therapy agency in Mt. Vernon, bringing PMHNPs, social workers, therapists, and support staff to serve patients in Skagit and Whatcom counties. She is a former President of the Association of Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses (AAPPN).

Patricia Wuertzer is certified as a spiritual life coach and principal of Living Light Life Coach, LLC. She is a long-time advanced practice psychiatric nurse (retired) who served on the Board of Directors of AAPPN, bringing practitioners together as a chapter chair in East King County.
 
Nikki and Patricia join returning Board members LPSF President Elaine Walsh, PhD, RN, PMHCN-BC, and Secretary/Treasurer Mary Ellen O’Keefe, MN, MBA, ARNP.
 
Thank you for your service to assist the next generation of psychiatric ARNPs in our state.