Dr. Hilary Butella is a board certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner with a secondary certification in family practice. Along serving as an assistant clinical professor at Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth, she practices psychiatry at LifeSpring Behavioral Health in The Woodlands Texas.

Dr. Butella received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice and Post-Master’s Certification in the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Program from Vanderbilt University. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner from the University of Houston. She received Bachelor of Science degrees from Texas A&M University and Texas Woman’s University. Dr. Butella also serves as an Associate Professor at Cizik School of Nursing in the Texas Medical Center. She and her husband live in the Klein area with their two daughters.