Our Story

Built around how care should feel.

VeraMind Psychiatry started with a simple frustration: too many psychiatric visits feel rushed, transactional, and disconnected from the rest of a patient's life. We built something else.

Our Approach

Three things every visit is built on

Whole-Person Care

Sleep, stress, work, relationships — medication is one piece of the picture, not the whole conversation.

Evidence-Based Treatment

Plans are grounded in clinical guidelines, not guesswork — reviewed and adjusted as your needs change.

Access Without the Wait

No waiting rooms, no long referral queues — real psychiatric care from wherever you are.

Jacqueline Kabukuru, DNP, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC
Our Provider

Jacqueline "Jacque" Kabukuru

Founder & Lead Clinician — DNP, PMHNP-BCPsychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Board Certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Learn more, FNP-BCFamily Nurse Practitioner, Board Certified by the ANCC — training that informs whole-health medication decisions. Learn more

Board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, also certified in family practice — so medication decisions account for your whole health.

Jacque founded VeraMind Psychiatry on one standard: every patient gets real medication management paired with an honest look at sleep, stress, and the rest of what's going on in their life — not just a symptom checklist. That standard now shapes how every visit at VeraMind is run.

With over twelve years of clinical experience bridging physical and mental health, she built the practice to be a judgment-free space where patients are actually heard — and to bring that kind of care to patients well beyond Alabama.

Outside the clinic, that same philosophy drives why VeraMind is expanding deliberately, state by state, instead of growing fast and thin: each new market only opens once the same standard of care can travel with it.

  • Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), Psychiatric Mental Health — Samford University
  • MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner — University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • MBA/MPH — University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Licensed in Alabama — CRNP License #1-125255

Pleasant Grove, AL 35127 · Serving Birmingham and all of Alabama · All visits by secure video

VeraMind is growing — additional clinicians are joining the practice within the year to expand access across every state we serve.

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Doctoral-Level Standard

Every plan of care meets a doctoral-trained, board-certified standard before it reaches a patient.

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Multi-State Reach

Now accepting patients in Alabama. Texas, Oregon, and Washington will open when operational readiness is complete.

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In-Network Partnerships

Multiple insurance networks are available through Headway, with eligibility verified before care.

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Secure by Design

Privacy-minded video visits delivered through established patient-care platforms.