Medication is one tool.
Understanding you—what you’ve lived through and what you’re trying to build—is what truly shapes the plan.
Meet your provider
Care that begins with listening.
Shanique Lankford is a dual board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with more than a decade of clinical experience. She founded Lanwell to offer the kind of unhurried, whole-person psychiatric care she always wished her patients could find — one that pays careful attention to hormones, life transitions, and the biological factors that quietly shape mood, energy, and mental wellness.
What we treat
Our Practice Area
Care is trauma-informed and individualized — never a template. Below is what we most commonly treat; the conversation begins with what's actually on your mind.
Anxiety
From everyday worry to panic — clarifying what's driving it, and what eases it.
Depression
Evidence-based medication management paired with attention to sleep, hormones, and life.
ADHD
Adult evaluation and treatment that respects how you actually live and work.
Insomnia
Restoring sleep without rushing to sedatives — considering rhythm, mood, and meds together.
PTSD
Trauma-informed support that moves at your pace, never around you.
Genetic Testing
Personalized insights to support your mental health treatment.
Why Lanwell
A practice that actually listens.
Psychiatry doesn't have to feel rushed, clinical, or transactional. At Lanwell, care is paced for real life. For hormones and life transitions, for the in-between seasons, for the person who's been told their concerns are "just stress" one too many times.
Ready to feel supported?
Scheduling is simple through Headway. Most major insurance plans accepted.
Serving Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC through secure telehealth.