Malaika Alert, Nurse Practitioner
Malaika Alert, PMHNP, helps adults find steadiness, clarity, and symptom relief through thoughtful, evidence-based psychiatric care tailored to their lives. Serving patients across California, she provides medication management that is collaborative, thorough, and grounded in respect for each individual’s goals, values, and lived experience. Malaika works with adults and seniors navigating concerns such as ADHD, anxiety, and bipolar disorder, helping patients better understand their symptoms and make informed decisions about treatment.
As a prescriber at LifeStance Health, Malaika focuses on building strong therapeutic partnerships that support long-term mental wellness. She treats adults ages 18 and older, including older adults, and has experience supporting individuals from diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQ+ individuals and military members and veterans. Her approach integrates careful medication evaluation with mindfulness-informed strategies to promote emotional regulation, focus, and resilience. In addition to her primary areas of focus, she offers support for a range of other mental health conditions when clinically appropriate.
Malaika is especially committed to helping adults manage complex mood and anxiety-related conditions with clarity and compassion. She understands how conditions like ADHD, anxiety, and bipolar disorder can affect daily functioning, relationships, and overall quality of life, and she strives to provide care that is both clinically precise and genuinely supportive. Her goal is to help patients feel heard, empowered, and confident in their treatment plan.
Outside of her clinical work, Malaika enjoys spending time with family, hiking, and reading as ways to recharge and maintain balance.
Provider Introduction
Types of Care & Ages Served
- Psychiatry/Medication Management: Ages 18-75+
Areas of Focus
Psychiatry/Medication Management
Treat and prevent mental health disorders using medication and therapy.
- ADHD
- Attention & focus
- Bipolar Disorder
- Depression/feeling down
- Hallucinations
- Intense mood changes
- Psychosis/issues with reality
- Schizophrenia/schizoaffective
- Self-esteem
- Sexual trauma
- Trauma & PTSD
- Unusual thoughts or beliefs
- Ability status
- Alcohol use
- Anger issues
- Anxiety
- Career & work issues
- Chronic pain-related issues
- Drug/substance use
- Ethnic identity
- First responder stress
- Focus, concentration & memory
- Gender affirming evaluations
- Gender identity
- Grief & loss
- Hair pulling & skin picking
- Immigration/cultural status
- LGBTQ+
- Medical/surgical evaluations
- Menopause & perimenopause
- Military & veteran
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Other women's health concerns
- Panic attacks
- Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- PMS & PMDD
- Racial identity
- Religion & spirituality
- Social injustice
- Stress from ongoing health issues
- Stress management
Insurances Accepted
- Aetna
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Elevance Health (Anthem BC) (D)
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- Health Net (MHN)
- HealthSmart
- Magellan (D)
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
Languages
- English
Education
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Vanderbilt University
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Questions
Please use our online form to schedule an appointment with Malaika Alert. You can also call 925-282-1778 to have someone assist you.
Malaika Alert generally accepts new patients but there could be a waitlist.
Please call 925-282-1778 to find out Malaika Alert's schedule and availability.
LifeStance Health providers accept most commercial insurance plans that are offered in the states where we offer services, including telehealth. Please see the following list of insurances accepted by Malaika Alert:
- Aetna
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Elevance Health (Anthem BC) (D)
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- Health Net (MHN)
- HealthSmart
- Magellan (D)
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
If you don't see your insurance listed, please contact us at 925-282-1778 to see how we can help.
Yes, Malaika Alert is licensed to prescribe medication in appropriate situations.
Malaika Alert works at:
Yes, Malaika Alert does offer online telehealth visits.
Yes, Malaika Alert is currently offering in-office visits at the following location: