Leigh serves as the medication prescriber for AWARE’s Missoula PACT team, providing psychiatric assessment support and medication management as part of an integrated, community based care model. Working in the PACT model has reinforced her belief in relationship based care, shared decision making, and the importance of meeting people in their own environments.

Leigh’s clinical background includes nursing experience at Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Critical Care and at the Providence Center Neurobehavioral Inpatient Unit. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Montana State University, completed her Master of Science in Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Frontier Nursing University, and later completed a Post Graduate Certificate as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner at Frontier Nursing University.