Tennessee reaches from Memphis to Johnson City, and a good number of our clients here spend their working weeks moving across it.
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Request a Tennessee appointmentTennessee is long, and its main cities are far enough apart to belong to different worlds. Clients come to us from Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Murfreesboro, and from small places in between where seeing a psychologist would be a drive rather than an errand. Others live in one of those cities and travel for a living, which turns a standing Tuesday appointment at a physical office into a fiction by about the third week.
Secure video answers both situations the same way. At home, you keep the hour without a commute; working elsewhere in the state, you keep it from a hotel room or a private office with the door shut. The one firm condition is that you be inside Tennessee when we start, because the psychologist's authority to treat you follows your physical location and not your address, your employer, or the state that issued your driver's license.
The list below covers most of what we are asked for in Tennessee. If your concern is not on it, the office can tell you whether this is something the practice takes on.
Dread that builds for days before a meeting, a flight, or a performance is treated by working on what sustains it and then through graded practice. Sleep and physical tension generally ease alongside.
This work begins with steadying the body: sleep, startle, the sense of being braced all the time. Only afterward, and only at the pace you set, do we take up the events themselves.
For clients weighing a promotion, a relocation, or leaving a field altogether, sessions separate what you want from what you have been told you should want, and look honestly at what each option costs.
Long stretches apart put a particular strain on a partnership. Two people are seen together to work on resentment that has gone unsaid, decisions taken alone, and the awkwardness of reconnecting after weeks away.
Adults who have compensated all their lives often arrive when a promotion removes the structure they were leaning on. Work focuses on planning systems that survive travel, and on the shame that has accumulated.
A flattening of mood is worked on through daily structure, movement, and contact with people, alongside the harsh self-appraisal that depression hands over as though it were simple fact.
The work is collaborative and explicit, suiting general adults, working professionals, university faculty, and families alike. We utilize Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help you build sustainable strategies over a period of months. You and the clinician agree early on what the sessions are for, and since we do not offer a quick fix, we review the plan aloud to decide whether to keep going, change tack, or finish. For clients who travel, we plan for interruption instead of pretending it will not happen: an hour moved rather than lost, and a clear understanding about long stretches spent out of the state. Where a problem calls for something this practice does not provide, we say so early.
All Tennessee work is done by Dr. Lusk, which matters most for clients whose schedules are irregular. The person you reschedule with already knows what you are working on and why.
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Dr. Lusk holds the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT™) granted by the PSYPACT® Commission, which authorizes her to provide telepsychology to clients located in Tennessee.
Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., directs this practice and carries its Tennessee caseload herself. Licensed as a clinical psychologist for more than twenty-five years, she works with individuals, partners seen jointly, families, and groups. She also conducts psychological evaluations, including employment screening and forensic assessment, and has been qualified as an expert witness by the State of Arizona.
Request an appointmentFull biographies, training, and areas of expertise are listed on our providers page. You can also read Dr. Lusk’s licensure and credentials in full. You are welcome to ask any clinician directly about their qualifications and experience.
Tennessee participates in PSYPACT®, the compact permitting a psychologist who holds interjurisdictional authority to provide telepsychology to clients located in other participating states. That authority is Dr. Lusk's, granted by the compact's commission, and it is what allows a client in this state to be treated by a psychologist whose office is in Flagstaff. No separate local registration is involved, and nothing turns on which part of the state you live in.
The condition attached to it concerns presence. She can see you when you are within Tennessee; a week of work in Georgia or Kentucky puts you in another jurisdiction, and whether an appointment can go ahead then depends on that state's participation, which the office is happy to check before you travel. Tell us about a permanent move as early as possible, so the clinician can either continue the work or hand it on properly.
Participating jurisdictions are published by the compact commissions and can change. You can review current psychology participation at psypact.gov, find the relevant psychology licensing board through the PSYPACT® board directory, or check counseling privileges at CompactConnect. If you are not sure which applies to you, call (844) 774-7997 and we will confirm before you schedule.
Clients reach us from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the University of Memphis, Middle Tennessee State University, and East Tennessee State University, and from private institutions including Vanderbilt University, Rhodes College, Belmont University, and Sewanee: The University of the South, where a small student body makes an outside clinician easier to talk to honestly.
We see clients in Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Murfreesboro, Johnson City, and Sewanee, and in towns with no local practice at all. The appointment goes where you are, provided you are somewhere in Tennessee with a door you can close.
It can, with some planning. A session can be taken from a hotel room or a borrowed office as long as you are still in Tennessee, and the office will work with an unpredictable calendar instead of holding you to one fixed hour forever. When a trip takes you over a state line, tell us in advance and we will decide together whether to move the appointment.
A link arrives before the appointment; you open it on whatever device you have and the session starts. The clinician confirms your location and a telephone number in case the connection fails. The hour itself is a conversation. From your side, what is needed is privacy, a workable signal, and headphones if anybody else is nearby.
Dr. Lusk performs psychological evaluations, including educational, employment screening, forensic, and neuropsychological work. What a referral question actually requires, and which parts of an evaluation have to be done face to face, are decided in consultation with her beforehand. We will not claim that a particular battery suits a remote format merely because that would be convenient.
Yes, on the basis set out above: the state participates in the interstate telepsychology compact, and Dr. Lusk holds the authority it confers. Participation can change over time, and the compact keeps its own current list at psypact.gov. The practical rule for you does not change, which is to be here when the session opens.
Call the office at (844) 774-7997 with anything practical and it will get to your clinician. The practice does not provide crisis or emergency services, so where a situation is urgent the national crisis and emergency lines are the right call rather than a message to us. Early on we will also identify local resources you could use if a night goes badly.
We accept all major credit and debit cards, and we gladly accept HSA, FSA, and HRA cards so you can use pre-tax dollars toward your care. Our practice generally operates out-of-network. This allows us to protect your privacy, keep care highly personalized, and avoid insurance-mandated session limits.
Our rates are sent in a fee agreement when you schedule an appointment. Please check with your insurance company regarding your out-of-network benefits. As a courtesy, we will submit claims on your behalf upon request, and any reimbursement will be sent directly to the insured. Call (844) 774-7997 or email info@psychotherapy.com if you have questions.
Our services are by appointment only, during normal business hours. Evening, weekend, and early morning appointments are sometimes available for established clients.
The first step is a conversation with the office rather than a booking form. Staff will hear what is going on, send the fee agreement, answer anything out-of-network, and look for a Tennessee appointment time that can survive your actual week.
We do not offer crisis, walk-in, or inpatient services of any type, and this page is not a substitute for emergency care.
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