Our Therapists

Michael is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Mental Health Service Provider who holds a Masters of Education in Counseling from Middle Tennessee State University and a Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Michael has experience in community mental health, addictions, and inpatient hospitalization.  Michael’s therapeutic approach involves incorporating aspects of CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing when working with patients. He utilizes these different therapies to help create an integrative approach and better appeal to each patient individually. He works with patients to help with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and addiction. 

Angela is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and became a Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty member in October 2012. She began her work with Vanderbilt in July 2007 at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital providing group therapy and later went on to work with the community mental health center at Vanderbilt in December 2009, providing individual and group therapy at the Adult Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic. She provided individual therapy, utilizing modalities such as cognitive behavioral therapy and prolonged exposure therapy at Vanderbilt and joined the NCHH division of NSTMS in the East Nashville location in December.

Emelyn is a Nashville native, born and raised. She excelled at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she majored in Spanish and World Business. While involved in numerous activities, she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences. Em began in this office as the TMS Coordinator and was promoted to Clinical Practice Manager in 2013. 

Chuck is our back office Administrator.  An MBA from Vanderbilt University and a University of Tennessee Alum, you might get a glimpse of him in the office. He is usually tucked away in the back working on accounting, insurance and operations. He is always available to help on any non-clinical issue when the front office staff is busy or unavailable. Chuck is an experienced Practice and TMS Administrator.