Mental Health Care in Nashville, TN

Nashville CARES

What Does Nashville CARES Offer?

Nashville CARES is a mental health facility at Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR and couples and family therapy.


Nashville, TN 37204

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

Types of Care at Nashville CARES

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Other State funds
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Clients with HIV or AIDS
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Housing services
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Case management service
  • Integrated primary care services
  • HIV testing
  • STD testing
  • TB screening
  • Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
  • Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
  • Laboratory testing

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Tennessee lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

In crisis? Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org, any time. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. anxiety.help is an independent guide, not a mental health provider or crisis service, and doesn't give medical advice. For a free, confidential referral, call SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357.