Austin Francom, APRN, FNP

Austin is a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner through the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). He started his work in health care at Volunteers of America social detox and the University of Utah’s Neuropsychiatric Institute while obtaining undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Sociology. 

After starting a career in nursing, with experience largely in mental health and critical care, he earned a master’s degree in nursing from Westminster College. He has been practicing in the Salt Lake Valley in primary care since 2013. Austin continues to work at UNI as an advanced practice clinician. In 2015, he began working full time in family practice at Summit Primary Care. 

Candace Curzon, LCSW

Candace graduated from the University of Utah with a BS in Psychology and a Masters of Social Work in 2012. She worked at the crisis center at UNI and on the inpatient psychiatric unit at LDS Hospital. She opened Theory and Method counseling in 2016. 

They began Therapeutic Alternatives in February 2019.