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Get To Know Us
Meet Our Health Professionals
At Alaska Treatment Center, our practitioners and friendly staff will ensure you feel comfortable and well-informed every step of the way. We’re a group of professional care practitioners whose mission is to provide the highest level of healthcare to the State of Alaska, Seattle, WA, Worcester, MA, and Miramar, FL. Meet our staff members, ready to serve you.
Dr. David Ampong, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC
Advanced Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Addiction Specialist
Education
Dr. Ampong goes by David. He earned his undergraduate baccalaureate in health science, focusing on cell biology, from Anna Maria College and a nursing degree from Becker College in Massachusetts. He obtained a master's degree specializing in business and administration from Aspen University. He earned a master's and doctoral degree in psychiatric mental health nursing from the University of Alaska Anchorage. He completed most of his two years of advanced psychiatric clinical practicum at Alaska Psychiatric Institute and the rest in outpatient settings. He completed a postgraduate certificate training to teach medicine program at Harvard medical school.
Clinical Experience
Dr. Ampong was a mental health counselor for the State of Massachusetts Psychiatric Institution (Glavine Regional Center) for seven years before earning his nursing degree. He has worked in medical-surgical (multiple places in MA and AK), mental health (PAMC, Ak), and addiction units (Roger Williams Medical Center, RI) for the past ten years. He joined academia in 2014 and has been teaching and working as a psychiatric nurse practitioner specializing in addiction medicine. His doctoral project was focused on outpatient detoxification and its implication for practice.
Dr. Ampong is an academic and practitioner who bridges the gap between research and practice. He is well-rounded and works with individuals from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. His recent research promotes outpatient detoxification as the first step to substance treatment. David has published and presented on pharmacogenomics and addiction medicine locally, nationally, and globally at some of the top annual medical conferences, such as ISPN, APNA, etc.
Clinical Services
Dr.Ampong provides psychiatric evaluation and treatment for many mental health issues. He is an expert in using approved FDA-innovative treatments for substance use disorders, alcohol use disorders, bipolar disorders, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and many other severe mental illnesses.
David sees adolescents and adults ranging from 6 years old to 70 years and above.
Dr. Ashley L. Bolte
Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Bolte is a clinical psychologist with extensive experience in psychological assessment, developmental disorders, and behavioral health across diverse populations. She had specialized training in administering, scoring, and interpreting neuropsychological and cognitive evaluations across a wide age range, along with extensive experience producing detailed clinical reports and diagnostic interpretations.
Dr. Bolte has hands-on clinical and behavioral health experience, including ten years in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy and several years in supervisory roles overseeing behavioral health technicians and treatment implementation. She has conducted clinical intake assessments, developed treatment plans, used evidence-based interventions for children, adolescents, and families, and provided parent training to support skill generalization in home environments.
Dr. Bolte has also worked in educational, residential, and community-based environments supporting individuals with mental illness, developmental disabilities, and complex psychosocial needs, helping them build independence, life skills, and social functioning.
Clinical Counselor
Dr. Dennis Tranel LCSW, Psy.D., MSW, MPAS, PA-C
Dr. Tranel is a clinician and medical professional whose career spans across emergency medicine, behavioral health, clinical leadership, and disaster response. He is a Physician Assistant with over 16 years of advanced practice experience and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 35 years of clinical expertise treating individuals across the lifespan, from early childhood through late adulthood. He worked as a flight paramedic, EMS chief, and hospital medic in the United States Air Force, where he gained extensive experience in emergency stabilization, critical care, and medical supervision.
Throughout his medical career, he has practiced in diverse settings ranging from high-volume trauma centers and rural emergency departments to international urgent care clinics, consistently demonstrating advanced procedural competence, leadership, and clinical decision-making under pressure. His interdisciplinary background uniquely integrates medical, psychological, and social work perspectives, allowing him to provide comprehensive, whole-person care in both acute and long-term treatment settings.
In parallel with his medical work, Dr. Tranel has maintained an extensive psychotherapy practice providing individual, family, and group therapy, clinical assessments, supervision, and consultation services. His therapeutic expertise includes dual-diagnosis treatment, addiction recovery, trauma-informed care, and tele-mental health. He is particularly known for integrating body-centered breathwork, movement, and experiential therapeutic techniques to help clients develop self-awareness, emotional regulation, and authentic self-expression.