Mindstone Health, PLLC ~ providing virtual memory care across Virginia
Clinical Expertise. Compassionate Support. Individualized Solutions.
Navigating the complexities of memory impairment can be overwhelming. Mindstone Health is a virtual clinic dedicated to providing compassionate, expert care to individuals experiencing memory loss—and to the loved ones supporting them—at every stage of their journey.
Led by an experienced Nurse Practitioner, we serve as your Mindstone: a steadfast anchor of clinical expertise and a trusted guide through unfamiliar territory. We simplify complex information, address challenging symptoms, and collaboratively develop a personalized care plan tailored to your individual needs.
Rely on us to bring clarity, compassion, and stability as you navigate change, helping you move forward with confidence and support.
Our Services
Our specialized memory care services are designed to provide personalized support and enhance the quality of life for individuals at every stage of the journey. Below, we’ve summarized the most common types of support we provide to our clients.
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Early Peace of Mind: We offer specialized early assessments to help determine if memory changes are normal aging or require action, ensuring you get the right support at the right time.
Clarity on Diagnosis: We translate complicated specialist reports and test results into simple, straightforward answers so you know exactly what the diagnosis means for your family.
A Clear Path Ahead: We replace the anxiety of waiting with expert coaching and immediate action. We help you maximize brain health right now and serve as your clinical liaison, ensuring a seamless, informed connection between your primary doctor and neurology specialists.
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Personalized Medication Planning: We conduct a comprehensive review of all dementia, mood, and behavioral medications. We fine-tune and simplify your regimen to ensure the best symptom relief with the fewest side effects, giving you confidence in your treatment.
Holistic Symptom Management: We don't just use prescriptions. We integrate medication with non-drug strategies (like environmental and lifestyle modifications) to manage challenging behaviors, restlessness, and sleep issues for a more peaceful and stable day-to-day life.
Comprehensive Health Integration: We don't treat dementia in isolation. We meticulously review your entire medical history and co-existing conditions to understand how they influence cognitive and behavioral symptoms. This allows us to craft a truly unique and safe care plan that works seamlessly with all existing medical needs.
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Strategic Care Navigation: We provide an expert layer of support that clarifies and prioritizes what matters most, ensuring your values remain central to every treatment decision. This clarity empowers you, and we help ensure the strategic direction is communicated effectively with all specialists, primary care providers, and family members.
Dignity-Centered Future Planning: We guide you through the crucial, difficult conversations about end-of-life wishes, quality of life, and legal decisions. We help you create a plan that honors your dignity, giving your family clarity and security for the future.
Therapeutic Grief Support: We offer specialized, safe space for the emotional burden of this journey. We provide dedicated support to help both you and your family process the deep feelings of anticipatory grief, loss of identity, and emotional exhaustion.
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About
Susie Carl is the founder and lead clinician at Mindstone Health, a licensed and certified Nurse Practitioner (NP) with over two decades of experience caring for older adults, including 13 years as an NP. After growing up in Pittsburgh, she earned her BSN at the University of Virginia while concurrently completing a Naval ROTC program, leading to her commission as a U.S. Naval Nurse Corps Officer. During her 11 years on active duty, Susie was awarded a full scholarship to continue her education at the University of Pennsylvania where she obtained her advanced practice degree, specializing in adult-geriatric complex care.
Throughout her career, Susie has specialized in Palliative Care, which focuses on optimizing quality of life and reducing suffering for individuals with serious illness. This robust clinical framework provided the foundation for her focus on complex dementia care, driven by recognizing the profound lack of comprehensive support for this patient population. To expand access to this essential service, Susie helped to design, build, and scale one of the nation's first virtual palliative care clinics for Devoted Health and further honed her advanced skills in dementia care through direct collaboration and mentorship with leading industry specialists. After experiencing complex illness as a caregiver herself, Susie was driven to start Mindstone in order to provide a direct pathway for people to access the kind of care they truly need: an empathetic expert who is there to listen, understand, explain, and guide. Her mission is simple—to make people feel less alone in situations that otherwise feel overwhelming and frightening.
Now established and working from the Shenandoah Valley, Susie is uniquely positioned to deliver the solution to that fragmentation. Mindstone Health uses her specialized NP expertise—including medication oversight, prognostic clarity, and holistic symptom management—to function as your trusted clinical guide and dedicated support system. This means seamlessly bringing advanced practice knowledge directly to Virginia families, translating conflicting guidance into clear, unified steps, and ensuring every patient and caregiver receives the emotionally attuned, clinically grounded care they deserve.
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