Owner, Founder, and Nurse Practitioner

Hello, I’m Miguel, a Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. I see individuals that are 18 years of age and older, who wish to improve their mental health. I provide comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and offer therapeutic “talk-therapy” sessions as well.

I was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in a mixed-generational Mexican-American home. I am fluent in Spanish, enjoy creative problem solving, and love to see (and make) art because it allows people to express themselves through different mediums to say what cannot always be said. For the better part of my mental health career, I have worked with adolescents and adults, that have difficulties with their mental health both chronic and situationally. Seeing and experiencing how the mental health system can treat a person as “just another patient” inspired me to be more than just a person who prescribes medication to treat symptoms. So, if you are looking for someone who actively listens, engages in meaningful dialogue, and can also potentially prescribe medication to help you on your journey of healing and improving your quality of life, please contact me here for a free 15 minute consultation.

Ambrose is our therapy dog ​​who accompanies our nurse practitioner, Miguel in therapeutic sessions and provides additional support to his clients

Medical Director, Collaborating Physician

Animo Psychiatry and Wellness is thankful to have highly knowledgeable Dr. Steven Storage as medical director and collaborative psychiatrist.

Dr. Storage attended UC Berkeley for his undergraduate degree in molecular and cell biology and earned his medical degree from the UCLA School of Medicine. He completed his general psychiatry residency at Stanford Hospital & Clinics and his child/adolescent psychiatry fellowship at USC. He continues to serve as Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at USC, where he mentors child psychiatry fellows.

Dr. Storage has published several peer-reviewed articles and given numerous presentations covering a variety of subjects, including neuroimaging of psychiatric disorders, effects of substance use on the brain, anxiety, the effects of social media on mental health, and psychosomatic medicine. He has received several teaching awards in the past, including the Dean’s Teacher of the Year at USC Keck School of Medicine in 2021 and the Outstanding Teaching Award for the Psychiatry Clerkship at USC Keck School of Medicine in 2020.