Your Path to Complete Wellness

Offering high-quality, multidisciplinary, collaborative assessment and behavioral healthcare treatment for children, adolescents, adults, and families in Nashville and Franklin.

About Us

The Approach at Nashville Child and Family Wellness Center

The experienced and compassionate staff at Nashville Child and Family Wellness Center provides clients with the highest quality psychiatric, psychosocial, and educational assessments and diagnostic services and translates this information into a structured treatment plan which is implemented by an exemplary team of multi-disciplinary specialists effectively and efficiently.

Our goal is to empower children, adolescents, and families to live healthy, balanced, and fulfilling lives.

We provide a broad spectrum of mental and behavioral health services at Nashville Child and Family Wellness Center in order to help clients reach their goals. All needed services are incorporated into clients’ wellness treatment plans using a multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach.

Psychiatry

Our psychiatric providers will perform comprehensive evaluations for children, adolescents, and adults for a variety of mental health issues.

Therapy

Providers at Nashville Child and Family Wellness Center are experienced and trained in a wide range of evidence-based modalities.

Testing & Assessment

Our team of psychologists provides comprehensive testing and developmental evaluations to help identify and treat a variety of issues. 

Neurofeedback

Neurofeedback is a method of retraining electrical activity in the brain in order to alleviate psychiatric symptoms including depression, anxiety & ADHD.

Nutrition

We provide personalized nutrition counseling to children, adolescents, adults, and families who wish to improve their relationship with food.

Speech & Language

Our speech-language therapy and assessments can help people struggling with a variety of oral, expressive, and pragmatic language difficulties.

More About Our Specialities

What We Treat

A wide spectrum of health & wellness issues for children, adolescents & adults including:

Meet our team of caring and compassionate providers.

The team of providers at our Franklin and Nashville wellness centers includes psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, psychologists, therapists, speech-language pathologists, registered dietitians, and neurofeedback providers.

All providers are dedicated to using evidence-based modalities and to continually educating themselves on the latest research.

SUSANNA QUASEM, MD, QEEG-D
Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist
EMILY HARDCASTLE, LCSW
Child, Adolescent, and Adult Therapist
STEPHANIE PENNACCHIA, LPC-MHSP
Child, Adolescent, and Adult Therapist - Ages 10+
LAURA LAINE, PMHNP
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
SARAH GRAYCE, MD
Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist
MOLLY BUTLER, PMHNP
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
CAROLINE HARTMAN, LPC-MHSP, CEDS
Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist
PAUL STEMMERMAN, PMHNP
Psychiatric Mental Health nurse practitioner

Latest news and articles from our blog.

What is the difference between DBT and RO DBT?

What is the difference between DBT and RO DBT?

April 18, 2024 Mental Health, NCFWC

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT) are twomodalities that

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The Art of Social Skills and Why They Matter

The Art of Social Skills and Why They Matter

October 20, 2023 Adolescents, Family, Mental Health

by Casey Berkowitz, LMSW & Bette Roberts, LMSW Think back to a time when you

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When to Pursue Psychoeducational/Diagnostic Testing for Yourself or Your Child

When to Pursue Psychoeducational/Diagnostic Testing for Yourself or Your Child

October 13, 2023 Testing

by Dr. Hilary Hughes, Licensed Clinical Psychologist Psychoeducational/diagnostic assessments are comprehensive evaluations that test cognitive

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