Lakara Profit, Nurse Practitioner
Lakara Profit, PMHNP, DNP, helps teens and adults across South Carolina stabilize their mental health with compassionate, evidence-informed medication management. She supports patients seeking relief from ongoing symptoms as well as those navigating complex transitions, offering steady guidance for adolescents, adults, and seniors throughout the state. She is particularly dedicated to supporting individuals recently discharged from psychiatric hospitalization. Lakara provides a structured, clinically grounded approach that helps patients re-establish safety, manage symptoms effectively, and rebuild confidence as they return to daily life. Her care emphasizes continuity, clear communication, and thoughtful medication strategies that promote long-term stability. Lakara’s clinical focus includes ADHD, anxiety disorders, and depression, and she also offers care for additional mental health needs. Her approach integrates mindfulness-based strategies to complement medication, empowering patients to strengthen emotional regulation and resilience. She works with diverse populations, including first responders, LGBTQ+ individuals, and military and veteran communities, and she provides additional support for other groups as well. Beyond her clinical work, Lakara values travel, music, holistic wellness, journaling, creative expression, and contributing to community mental health education.
Provider Introduction
Types of Care & Ages Served
- Psychiatry/Medication Management: Ages 15-74
Areas of Focus
Psychiatry/Medication Management
Treat and prevent mental health disorders using medication and therapy.
- ADHD
- Attention & focus
- Depression/feeling down
- Self-esteem
- Sexual trauma
- Trauma & PTSD
- Ability status
- Adoption & foster care
- Aging
- Alcohol use
- Anger issues
- Anxiety
- Attachment issues
- Autism: generally independent
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body image
- Brain/head injuries (TBI)
- Bullying or harassment
- Career & relationships (mid-life)
- Career & work issues
- Caregiving
- Childhood behavioral issues
- Chronic pain-related issues
- Conditions caused by stress
- Detachment/disconnection
- Dissociative disorders
- Domestic violence & abuse
- Drug/substance use
- Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
- Early adulthood: Starting college or career
- Eating issues: binging
- Eating issues: food deprivation
- Eating issues: purging/regurgitating
- Emotional abuse
- Empty nesters
- Ethnic identity
- Family conflict
- Fertility
- First responder stress
- Focus, concentration & memory
- Gambling
- Gender affirming evaluations
- Gender identity
- General relationship issues
- Grief & loss
- Hair pulling & skin picking
- Hallucinations
- Hoarding
- Immigration/cultural status
- Intellectual challenges: generally independent
- Intense mood changes
- Learning challenges
- LGBTQ+
- Marital stress or divorce
- Men's health/issues
- Menopause & perimenopause
- Military & veteran
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Other addictive behaviors
- Other neurological conditions
- Other women's health concerns
- Panic attacks
- Parenthood
- Parenting
- Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- PMS & PMDD
- Pornography/sexual behaviors
- Post-partum depression & anxiety
- Pre-conception
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy loss
- Premarital counseling
- Psychosis/issues with reality
- Racial identity
- Religion & spirituality
- Retirement
- Schizophrenia/schizoaffective
- School avoidance
- School behavioral issues
- Self-injury or cutting
- Sex & intimacy issues
- Sleep issues or insomnia
- Social injustice
- Social skills & communication
- Sports performance
- Stress from ongoing health issues
- Stress management
- Stroke-related conditions
- Unhealthy eating habits
- Unusual thoughts or beliefs
- Video game/internet
Insurances Accepted
- Absolute Total Care
- Aetna
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Companion Benefit (BCBS)
- Devoted Health Plan
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Promise Health Plan (Prisma)
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- Tricare East (Humana Military)
Languages
- English
Education
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Defense Language Institute- Foreign Language Center
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Community College of the Air Force
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Medical University of South Carolina
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University of South Carolina-Beaufort
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University of South Carolina Beaufort
New patient?
Call 854-246-1100 To Book Call To Book AppointmentFrequently Asked
Questions
Please call us at 854-246-1100 to schedule an appointment with Lakara Profit.
Lakara Profit generally accepts new patients but there could be a waitlist.
Please call 854-246-1100 to find out Lakara Profit'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 Lakara Profit:
- Absolute Total Care
- Aetna
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Companion Benefit (BCBS)
- Devoted Health Plan
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Promise Health Plan (Prisma)
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- Tricare East (Humana Military)
If you don't see your insurance listed, please contact us at 854-246-1100 to see how we can help.
Yes, Lakara Profit is licensed to prescribe medication in appropriate situations.
Lakara Profit works at:
Yes, Lakara Profit does offer online telehealth visits.
Yes, Lakara Profit is currently offering in-office visits at the following location: