Website: https://nashvillefamilywellness.com/
Nashville Child and Family Wellness Center (NCFWC) is a behavioral healthcare and mental health practice serving children, adolescents, adults, and families across Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee. The center provides what it describes as “multidisciplinary, collaborative assessment and behavioral healthcare treatment,” bringing a range of clinical disciplines together under one roof. The practice emphasizes evidence-based care and coordination among its providers.
Services
The center offers a broad set of services spanning evaluation and treatment. Psychiatry includes comprehensive evaluations for children, adolescents, and adults, with providers discussing holistic options such as lifestyle recommendations covering exercise, nutrition, and sleep, as well as treatment risks and benefits including medication and neuromodulation. Therapy is offered in individual, family, dyadic, and group formats for concerns the website describes as “anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship problems,” using modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), attachment-based therapies, Family Based Therapy (FBT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).
Testing and assessment services include psychoeducational testing of cognitive abilities, learning styles, and academic strengths and weaknesses, along with developmental testing that evaluates social, emotional, and behavioral development. Autism testing uses child observation, parent and teacher interviews, and psychological testing with the ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule). The center also provides neurofeedback, nutrition counseling, speech and language therapy, eating disorder treatment using a multidisciplinary approach, and a set of specialized programs.
About
The practice is “dedicated to deliver services that include the highest quality, collaborative, evidence-based mental health care” while also fostering education for new and experienced providers. It describes a “unique collaborative approach among multidisciplinary professionals who are easily accessible under one roof and function as a team,” and prioritizes family involvement through support groups, parent classes, and coordinated activities. The team includes psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, psychologists, therapists, speech-language pathologists, registered dietitians, and neurofeedback practitioners. Providers listed include Susanna Quasem, MD; Emily Hardcastle, LCSW; Stephanie Pennacchia, LPC-MHSP; Laura Laine, PMHNP; Sarah Grayce, MD; Molly Butler, PMHNP; Caroline Hartman, LPC-MHSP, CEDS; and Paul Stemmerman, PMHNP.
Location & Contact
The center has two Tennessee locations. The Nashville office is at 85 White Bridge Road, Nashville, TN 37205, and the Franklin office is at 103 Forrest Crossing Boulevard, Suite 103, Franklin, TN 37064. The practice can be reached by phone at 615-238-9100 and by fax at 615-393-6940. A patient portal is available online for existing patients.
Additional Information
Treatment areas include mood disorders, anxiety and OCD-related disorders, ADHD and behavioral disorders, autism spectrum and neurodevelopmental disorders, eating disorders, trauma-related disorders, and speech and learning difficulties. The website includes sections for services, programs, resources, requesting services, virtual services, the patient portal, a blog, and videos.
Profile compiled from the company’s official website (nashvillefamilywellness.com).