Amanda Watters, ND, is an adjunct faculty member who teaches on the topics of Pediatrics and Psychology. She is also the executive director at Neurotherapeutic Pediatric Therapies, Inc., where she provides naturopathic medical care to children and adolescents in an integrative nonprofit medical setting. She graduated from NUNM where she then completed three years of residency, and was the chief resident in her final year. In 2017, she also served as the university’s lead pediatric clinician for the Soy Sano/I’m Healthy Grant, which helped provide access to medical care for uninsured pediatric patients.

She has a strong interest in developmental and behavioral pediatrics, and a passion for de-stigmatizing mental illness. Dr. Watters offers workshops on suicide prevention and trains medical providers and students how to skillfully invite an open dialogue about the subject. She finds that the first place we must all start is with ourselves – we have to become more comfortable and skilled in having conversations about suicide before we can expect others to do the same. When not practicing medicine, you can find her spending time exploring the Portland Japanese Garden, frequenting her favorite Thai food restaurant, or planning her next adventure abroad.