About Us:
East Nashville Wellness Center is a non-profit mental health and substance use clinic. Our goal is to meet the mental health needs of Middle Tennessee. We truly wish to serve the under-served. Clinic staff are East Nashville locals. They are passionate about serving their community.
We have now moved our location to be in the heart of East Nashville. Our focus is general mental health disorders, including substance use disorders. Our services include medication management, individual psychotherapy, and more. We plan to offer group therapy and case management in the future. East Nashville Wellness Center can take some insurances, and also has a sliding scale. This means payment is based on what our patients can pay. This helps makes our services affordable for as many people as possible. Learn more about us and our services below.
Even insured patients frequently experience long waits and difficulty finding qualified providers, often receiving fragmented or limited care. Uninsured and Medicaid patients have even greater difficulty. One thing about us, is that we find this unacceptable.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration estimates that ~20% of Tennesseans are diagnoses with a mental health disorder, and ~10% have used illicit substances in the last month. It is also estimated that less than ~20% of these patients are receiving specialty treatment.
Ongoing research in addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine has finally yielded effective and safe treatments which can be provided at the outpatient level, but are limited by stigma and practical obstacles. Our clinic’s goal is to provide these badly-needed specialty services.