Meet Our Team
Donna Felkins-Dohm
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
“I am excited to join Cristal and Spirit Clinic. I bring many years of experience working with individuals dealing with life's challenges, along with emotional and crisis circumstances, addiction, and psychiatric disorders. I have worked in several settings such as outpatient offices, private practice, community mental health centers, and 10 years at the VA working with veterans who suffered with addiction and mental illness.
My style of working with individuals is through a partnership, with a focus on promoting living and coping strategies that enhance quality of life, independence, and stability of illness. My best assets are my sense of humor and being down to earth.
I grew up in Indiana and have spent most of my married life in Florida. We moved to Arizona in 2018 and we Love Love Love it here. It is such a beautiful state and we finally get to have all four seasons, the changing of the leaves, and some snow 2-3 times every year!
I have a passion for life and try to live mine as fully as possible. I love nature and connecting with our Mother Earth. Animal welfare is a high priority of mine and protecting our earth, and wishing for peace.
I look forward to attending festivals and going out weekly to listen to music.
I volunteer for the Arizona Crisis Team and get called out to situations that usually involve tragedy and am there to emotional and practically support individuals, families, and the impacted communities. This work reminds me that it is so important to live in the present.”
Nyda Airline
Patient Care and Marketing Coordinator
Nyda has a BS and MS in Counseling from Post University. Most recently, Nyda started working as a Community Health Partner at Cityblock Health, a healthcare company that provides personalized community-based care to underserved populations through technology, data analytics, and teams to support members in managing their health. Nyda started working for CItyblock Health at their Waterbury, CT before being promoted to Care Team Lead at their Charlotte, NC location maintaining quality standards, leading teams, collaborating across departments while developing trainings. Her final role at Cityblock Health was as Care Team Manager where she monitored team metrics, improved efficiency of operations, collaborate across regional markets, address member concerns and other activities of improvement to the operations of the company. Prior, Nyda worked as a Care Manager for 10 years at Connecticut Community Care and began her healthcare career spending 8 years as a Program Director at Waterbury Youth Service Systems hiring experts, managing finances, evaluating progress, optimizing logistics, and implementing innovative strategies.
About the Founder
Cristal Sampson
Owner and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
I started Spirit Clinic to provide high-quality collaborative care to people in active pursuit of a life well-lived. I emphasize presence in my practice and attune to my patients’ pain, struggles, and joys through deep listening and deep feeling.
I am a board certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC). My specialties include, bipolar disorders; depressive and anxious mood disorders; post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and working with survivors of abuse; as well as thought disorders involving intrusive thoughts in early to older adults.
I have conducted research in neurobehavioral mechanisms of food intake and published research at NYU Langone Health in the field of alcoholism and drug abuse, particularly looking the phenomenon coined 'spiritual awakening' and its role in long-term abstinence from drugs and alcohol.
I have a diverse background in psychiatric nursing that includes working in large urban teaching hospitals, long-term residential psychiatric programs, community mental health centers, school based mental health centers, and in rural communities. I earned a Master's of Science in Nursing from Yale University and a BA in Neuroscience and Psychology from Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY).