Anne Rossell, PMHNP-BC
Board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner specializing in adolescent and young adult psychiatry since 2012.Anne Rossell founded Yellow House Behavioral Health to provide the kind of careful, unhurried psychiatric evaluation that adolescents and families deserve. Her background spans over a decade of specialized adolescent psychiatric care across inpatient, residential, outpatient, foster care, and community mental health settings throughout California and beyond.
Anne Rossell, PMHNP-BC
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner | Founder, Yellow House Behavioral Health
Anne Rossell is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) licensed in California. She holds board certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and has specialized in adolescent and young adult psychiatry since 2012. Her clinical focus is psychiatric evaluation, diagnostic clarification, and medication management for adolescents and young adults ages 10 to 25 throughout California.
Anne has worked across inpatient, residential, outpatient, foster care, and community mental health settings, including adolescent-focused clinical work at McLean Hospital (a Harvard Medical School affiliate), Horsham Clinic, Wayside Youth and Family Support Network, and Casa Pacifica. This range of experience, from acute inpatient to outpatient community care, gives her a clinical perspective that is rarely developed in a single setting.
Anne holds an active DEA registration for prescribing controlled substances in California, including Schedule II stimulant medications for ADHD. Yellow House operates with a collaborating physician as required by California regulations.
Her approach is thoughtful, collaborative, and never rushed. She works closely with families and coordinates with therapists, schools, and other providers when appropriate, because the best outcomes for adolescents almost always involve more than one person working in the same direction.
Clinical Philosophy
Adolescence is not a smaller version of adulthood. It is a unique and rapidly changing stage shaped by development, neurobiology, identity, social pressure, academic demands, family dynamics, and the influence of technology. Symptoms can escalate quickly and can be difficult for families to interpret without a specialized adolescent clinical lens.
Anne's clinical philosophy starts with listening carefully before drawing conclusions. ADHD, anxiety, depression, trauma, mood instability, and sleep disorders can all look similar in adolescents. Getting the diagnosis right before making medication decisions is not a formality. It is the foundation of good psychiatric care.
Medication is a powerful tool when used correctly and a source of unnecessary side effects when it is not. The goal at Yellow House is always the right diagnosis, the right medication when it is actually needed, the right dose, and a complete treatment plan that fits the whole picture.
Yellow House works best alongside therapy, not in place of it. When therapy is already part of a young person's care, psychiatric evaluation adds a different clinical lens: understanding how symptoms, neurobiology, diagnosis, and medication options fit together.
The goal is not more medication. The goal is the right plan.
Clinical Background
Over a decade of specialized adolescent psychiatric experience across diverse clinical settings.
Inpatient Psychiatry — McLean Hospital is a Harvard Medical School psychiatric affiliate and one of the most respected psychiatric institutions in the United States. Clinical work with clients in an acute inpatient setting provided experience with complex, high-acuity presentations.
Inpatient and Residential Adolescent Psychiatry — Clinical experience in adolescent inpatient psychiatric settings, working with a wide range of presentations including mood disorders, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, and complex co-occurring conditions.
Community, Residential, Acute and Foster Care Psychiatry — Psychiatric care for adolescents and young adults in community mental health, hospital step down,outpatient and foster care settings, including work with youth navigating complex trauma, system involvement, and complex social circumstances.
Lead Psychiatric Prescriber Camino a Casa — Casa Pacifica is a California-based residential treatment center for children and adolescents. Anne served as the lead psychiatric prescriber, providing comprehensive psychiatric evaluation and medication management for youth in hospital inpatient step down and residential treatment.
Founder and Clinical Director — Founded Yellow House Behavioral Health to provide specialized telehealth adolescent and young adult psychiatric evaluation, diagnostic clarification, and medication management for families throughout California. The practice reflects over a decade of specialized adolescent clinical experience distilled into a thoughtful, unhurried, family-centered model of care.
Credentials & Certifications
Board Certification
Anne holds board certification as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the gold standard for psychiatric nursing credentialing in the United States.
California Licensure
Anne is licensed as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in the state of California, with full authority to provide psychiatric evaluation and medication management to patients located in California.
DEA Registration
Anne holds an active DEA registration in California, allowing her to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances including stimulant medications for ADHD when the clinical picture supports that decision.
Collaborating Physician
Yellow House operates with a collaborating physician as required under California regulations for nurse practitioner practice. This collaborative model ensures a high standard of care and clinical oversight.
Ready to work with Anne?
Telehealth appointments throughout California for adolescents and young adults ages 10 to 25.
Get Started
Yellow House Behavioral Health provides specialized telehealth psychiatric care for adolescents and young adults ages 10 to 25 throughout California.
Call, email, or use the appointment request form. There is no obligation to schedule.
Contact Information
Phone: (831) 400-3848
Email: [email protected]
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Service Area: Telehealth throughout California
Ages Served: 10 to 25