Imagine Healthcare Welcomes Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Madison Maskalunas to Chicago Interventional Psychiatry Team

Board-certified PMHNP joins practice to provide psychiatric medication management and administer ketamine and Spravato treatments

CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, August 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Imagine Healthcare, an interventional psychiatry and integrative mental health practice in Chicago, today announced that Madison Maskalunas, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, has joined the clinic as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. She began seeing clients 8/5/26 at the practice's 708 W Grand Ave location.

Maskalunas will provide comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and psychiatric medication

management for clients across the lifespan, and will spend one day each week in the clinic administering ketamine infusions and Spravato (esketamine) treatments. That dual role is central to how the practice works: the same provider who manages a client's medications is also present to provide interventional treatment.

"Madison came to us having already managed care for more than 300 patients ranging from children to adults in their nineties, which is an unusually broad base of experience for a clinician at this stage," said Rachel Norris, MD, MA, owner and Medical Director of Imagine Healthcare. "What stood out just as much was her background in neurorehabilitation — she spent years working with patients whose psychiatric symptoms were tangled up with complex neurological injury. That teaches you to look at the whole person rather than a diagnosis, which is exactly how we practice here."

Maskalunas earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from The Ohio State University, her Master of Science in Nursing from DePaul University, and completed her post-master's Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner training at Herzing University. She is board certified as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

She began her career at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, caring for patients with traumatic brain injury and complex neurological and behavioral conditions in an inpatient rehabilitation setting, before moving into outpatient psychiatric practice. Her graduate clinical training included work with Spravato and transcranial magnetic stimulation, and she holds additional certifications in medications for substance and opioid use disorders and in trauma-informed service delivery. As an undergraduate, she founded a campus mental health organization focused on peer support and reducing stigma around seeking care.

"I've always believed that resilience already exists inside every person I work with, even at times when it's hardest to see," said Maskalunas. "My job is to help someone find it and build on it. Medication is one tool for that, and a powerful one, but it works best inside a real therapeutic relationship, with a plan built around that specific person's life, strengths, and goals. Imagine Healthcare was already practicing that way, which is what drew me here."

Outside the clinic, Maskalunas paints and draws, cooks and bakes, travels, and takes long walks with her puppy.

Her arrival expands appointment availability at a practice that combines conventional psychiatry with interventional and integrative options under one roof — ketamine infusions, Spravato, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), PRISM neurofeedback for PTSD and MDD, vibroacoustic therapy (InHarmony), energy work, and GeneSight pharmacogenomic testing to help guide medication selection.

New and existing clients can request a PMHNP appointment at findhelp@imaginehealthcare.org or by calling 312.300.2190.

About Imagine Healthcare

Imagine Healthcare is a psychiatry clinic in Chicago offering interventional and holistic mental health care, including ketamine therapy, Spravato, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, psychiatric medication management, PRISM for PTSD, GeneSight testing, and wellness services. It is the first woman-owned and woman-run ketamine clinic in Chicago and the only one led by a palliative medicine–trained physician — an approach centered on relieving suffering and restoring quality of life for people living with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, and chronic pain. The care team includes psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, licensed therapists, palliative medicine and emergency medicine physicians overseeing procedures. Imagine Healthcare is located at 708 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60654.