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After serving his country overseas, David Weiberg found a new way to continue helping others, this time by supporting children, teens and families in Southwest Florida.
Weiberg, a pediatric mental health nurse practitioner with Lee Health, says service has been part of his life since he was a teenager.
“I actually signed on to the Navy in between my 11th and 12th grade year,” Weiberg said.
During his military career, Weiberg worked as a photographer and videographer and completed two tours in Iraq in 2006 and 2008. He said those experiences helped shape the path he would take post service.
“You really got to experience the horrors that war can kind of present to people and how that affects people mentally, and that’s what kind of drove my passion after retiring in 2011 to kind of continue in a different capacity to serve,” he said.
That different capacity became behavioral health. Weiberg developed an interest in the field while in nursing school and now focuses on helping young patients and their families find support early.
“It was important in this position to serve the adolescent community,” Weiberg said.
As a pediatric mental health nurse practitioner, Weiberg works with children and families with a focus on assessment, treatment and connecting patients with the right resources.
“To make sure that they are being properly assessed, properly treated, finding the resources to help them thrive with whatever condition they have,” Weiberg said.
For Weiberg, the work is about helping families move forward, one patient at a time.
“That just kind of gives me the reason to wake up in the mornings,” Weiberg said.
From serving overseas to serving families here in Southwest Florida, Weiberg said his mission continues through the care he provides every day. He works in Lee Health’s Pediatric Behavioral Health office in Naples. You can make an appointment on Leehealth.org.
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