About Skin confident alaska

Whitney Carlson, MSN, FNP-C is a board-certified aesthetic dermatology Nurse Practitioner. She was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. 

After graduating in 2008, she began her journey to becoming Alaska’s Beauty Nurse. She  started her career as a facial plastic surgery nurse/nurse injector and she helped build one of Alaska’s largest medical spas. After moving to the Peninsula in 2014, Whitney partnered with dermatologist Dr. Mathew Cannava, to create an elevated medical aesthetic dermatology service line. In 2020, Whitney partnered with Dr. Katie Ostrom to bring clinic to the beautiful seaside town of Homer, Alaska. 

In 2024 she opened her aesthetic dermatology clinic, Skin Confident Alaska. At SCA she offers the most advanced and evidence-based medical aesthetic treatments available. 

Whitney is an ardent advocate for skin health and natural injectables. She continues her education by traveling around the world to learn the safest, most advanced techniques in her field. 

Whitney is a faculty trainer for Crafted Academy, a national trainer and local private trainer, and has moderated for the Academy for Injection Anatomy by the American Medical Spa Association. 

Whitney is also a national company trainer for Revance Aesthetics and Sciton. She travels across the US teaching injectors the art of neurotoxins and fillers. 

Whitney’s passion and heart for her patients is what drives her to never stop learning, teaching and providing incredible results. Her goal for her patients is education and beautiful, refined results for a lifetime of confident, healthy beauty.

Outside of work, Whitney is a true Alaska girl, outdoor-loving wife and mom of the two best boys in the world. She spends all summer fishing and all winter skiing. Follow her on Instagram to see more of her Alaska life @alaskabeautynurse