We are Nashville’s Premier Holistic Healing Center
Experience holistic healing services including (but not limited to) counseling, coaching, spiritual healing, massage, metaphysical studies, self-care, classes, & more that flow together to create a more authentic and enlightened YOU
Our mission in Nashville is to advocate a conscious and balanced life through self-discovery, relationships, education, and Integrated healing and to provide a place for healing to occur.
Voted #1 Therapy Clinic and in the Top 3 Holistic Wellness Centers in Nashville
in 2024 & 2025 by the readers of the Nashville Scene.
Our Services
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Counseling
The services at The Estuary may use a variety of healing methods to help you expand your awareness and to realize you already know everything you need to know… -
Integrative Therapy
One of the principles of integrative therapy is that healing one level of the mind, body, or spirit can affect healing on the other levels. By exploring all three levels, deep and lasting healing is possible… -
Jungian Psychoanalysis
Depth psychotherapy pioneered by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung with emphasis on profound psychological growth, spirituality and the creative process. -
Couples Therapy
During couples therapy, a trained therapist works with both partners, facilitating constructive dialogue The goal of couples therapy is to create a stronger foundation for long-lasting love.. -
Life Coaching
Our life coaches use a method of coaching that is a highly tuned process of communication. The relationship is "co-creative" and focused on your goals…goes here -
Spiritual Coaching
Spiritual Coaching is a transformative practice that focuses on supporting individuals in deepening their connection with their spirituality and living a life aligned with their higher purpose… -
Health Coaching
In Health Coaching sessions at The Estuary, you work with your coach to establish a plan that works toward healing from the inside out through changes in food and lifestyle habits... -
Autoimmune Coaching
For individuals living with autoimmune conditions or simply wanting empowerment in there health journey, Autoimmune Coaching is a non-medical, mindset-focused coaching. -
Play Therapy
Play Therapy is a unique and effective form of therapy that utilizes the power of play to support children, adolescents, and even adults in navigating emotional, behavioral challenges… -
Animal-Assisted Therapy
Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) is a therapeutic approach that harnesses the unique bond between humans and animals to support physical, emotional, cognitive, and social well-being… -
Breathwork
Breathwork is a practice that involves intentionally changing your breathing pattern to improve your mental, physical, and spiritual well-being… -
Massage Therapy
Massage therapists knead muscles and other soft tissues of the body to provide treatment for injuries and to promote general wellness… -
Yoga Therapy
Therapeutic yoga is an inherently holistic approach, simultaneously working on the body, mind and spirit, encouraging selfcare… -
Energy Healing
Energy healing is a treatment of the chakra systems and layers of the auric field that may contain blocks to the emotional and physical body… -
Akashic Healing/Reading Sessions
An Akashic Healing is a profound modality that taps into the timeless and limitless Akashic Records. Through this healing modality, you can access insights necessary for your growth.. -
Dream Therapy
Dream Therapy explores the symbolic messages and meanings within a person's dreams. It recognizes that dreams can offer valuable insights into the unconscious mind… -
Tarot
Explore feelings, beliefs, & thoughts. Learn to articulate feelings or thoughts that are hard to express. Identify behavior & decision-making patterns. Visualize different outcomes. -
Groups & Classes
Do you want to discover yourself alongside other seekers in the study of Energy, Chakras, Kabbalah, Enneagram, Spirituality, Personal Development and other Similar Studies? -
Holistic Health Services
This program supports the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the chronically ill and tailored to individual needs … -
Medication Management
Make an appointment with our Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner as part of your care at The Estuary to review and to help you manage your medications.
At the Estuary, our staff members are well-trained in holistic care and have expertise in a many areas. Many of them hold classes, workshops, and groups creating a rich schedule of opportunities for you to learn, grow, heal and transform. We hope you will join us!
Your Healing Journey Begins at The Estuary
Active Groups & Classes
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Saturday Morning Expansion
Your Saturday morning dose of inspiration! On select Saturdays from 10-11am, join us for an exciting one-hour class that will leave you feeling energized, enlightened, and ready to take on the world. -
2 Natural Ways to Improve Your Health and Feel Better
This FREE class is for you if you:• Feel tired all day even with “healthy habits”
• Crave sugar or struggle with emotional eating
• Feel stuck in weight loss plateaus
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The Healing Circle
A energy healing gathering designed to help you reconnect to your body, clear energetic blockages, & step into deeper alignment. -
Sound Bath
Come for gentle breathing exercises and then dive deep into our sound journey together as you hear different instruments like crystal bowls, chimes, gongs and other instruments. Have a warm beverage and journal afterwards if you choose. . -
Community Night
Come to our monthly community night! A 90(ish)-minute topic-based conversation facilitated by Samantha Cutler. Connect with others, have fun, socialize! -
Tarot Night
Tarot Night is for the curious minds and hearts that are drawn to the magical art of tarot. Come in person or virtually to practice, ask questions, share ideas, and strengthen your intuition. -
New Year, New Energy: Breathe In, Tune In, Create 2026
Come for a Saturday workshop and leave with a deeper connection to your intuition, a holistic look back at 2025, a vision board created from inner truth, a powerful sense of possibility for 2026, and renewed energy, inspiration and direction! -
Deepening Connection: A Modern Women's Analytic Group
This 10-week women’s group offers a supportive, confidential space to explore how past experiences shape present-day relationships. -
New Year, New Chapter
How to get unstuck and to begin creating the life you desire. Gain the mindset shifts and practical tools to finally break through stagnation and step fully into your potential. -
Inherited Patterns
Understand your story and how generations live through you in this 3-class journey into the electrifying intersections of physics, biology, and ancestral wisdom. Harness this knowledge to unlock potential and enact change in your own life. -
The Fundamentals of Energy Work
Come to this comprehensive and engaging experience that will enhance your understanding and practice. -
Holistic Life Coach Certification Program
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Falling in Love . . . with YOU!
Cultivate a deeply loving, compassionate, and nourishing relationship with yourself. Through guided meditation, gentle breathwork, journaling, dyads, and group sharing, you’ll be invited to meet yourself with kindness, release old patterns of self-judgment, and open your heart to receive love in all its forms. -
The Clarity Catalyst
Receive the blueprint & the practical tools to move past blocks, release old patterns, & invite more freedom & ease into your life. Notice your clarity, confidence, awareness, sense of direction, & passion naturally begin to expand. -
Infinite Kabbalah
Study the energies of the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine. Explore the Ten Points of Light, otherwise known as The Tree of Life.Learn about levels of consciousness that infiltrate our human and spiritual experience.
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Write Your Story
Focus on the origins of creativity, learn practical skills for grounding and opening up your creative channels. Discover daily routines that will help you stay on track and nurturing your ideas until they grow into first drafts. You'll leave ready to write your story. -
Receiving Spiritual Awakening
A dynamic class designed to help you tap into the Divine Presence that resides within us all. In a world where mindfulness and self-discovery are more important than ever, this class uses mindfulness, energy healing, Kabbalah and conscious living to create a space for profound personal growth. -
The Intuition Revolution
Join us in this transformative class that will help you develop your intuition and deepen your connection with your sixth sense and the unseen world. It is an ability ALL of us have, but most of us have not been taught how to tune into it. -
Sefer Yetzirah
Join us for this advanced Kabbalah study as we explore the mysteries of the Sefer Yetzirah. We’ll delve into the numerology, the etymology, and the astrology correlated with the Tree of Life… -
Discovering Your EnneaType
Understand yourself more deeply, uncover core motivations, and experience embodied insight using the wisdom of the Enneagram’s foundational triads. -
Awakening the Hero Within
You are not broken. You are becoming.And there is a wise, powerful part of you—your Inner Herowaiting to be awakened.
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Akashic I
Learn to access information and guidance about your soul and its journey from your own Book of Life, leading you to a deeper understanding of your life's experiences and the opportunity to heal the root causes of certain challenges or recurring patterns.
Led by our amazing Practitioners in Nashville
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Susan Austin-Crumpton
Founder, Executive Director
With over 35 years of experience, Susan’s expertise spans transpersonal psychology, integrative healing and experiential therapy. As a Life Coach and Energy Healer in Nashville, she guides students in creating mind-body-spirit connections. Through her teachings, students explore powerful healing techniques…
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Lyndy Stich
Clinical Consultant
Lyndell Stich is a licensed clinical social worker and licensed alcohol and drug abuse counselor with over 30 years of experience. Combining the presence of mind, body spirit awareness with his training in Brainspotting and EMDR allows Lyndy the skills to bring the client into the positive present…
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Diane Allen
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Diane has a background working as a Registered Nurse at Vanderbilt Medical Center and Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. She has also completed additional training in spiritually integrated psychotherapy and enjoys integrating whole person care (body-mind-spirit) into her work…
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Lynn Bartrum
Integrative Life Coach
Life coach and energy practitioner Lynn Bartrum helps clients from many walks of life discover their innate wholeness and beauty, and become the most authentic and joyful versions of themselves possible. Lynn’s clients are often drawn and they enjoy working with her because of the results she helps them achieve…
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Susan Beyler
Integrative Counselor
Susan specializes in family and society-of-origin issues, behavioral addictions, relationship and communication skills. Using an experiential and cognitive approach, along with metaphors and humor, she helps you explore what you learned during your formative years that created your current beliefs…
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Ashley Boerger
Professional Counselor
Ashley is trained in Child Centered Play Therapy and works with children ages 4–10 and their parents to support emotional growth and communication. She also incorporates Animal Assisted Psychotherapy, including sessions with her therapy rabbit, Piper, to help children and adults reconnect with nature.
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Kim Breese
Intuitive Guide, Energy Practitioner
Kim has unlocked the powerful tool of intuition and loves to guide others in understanding their personal power by helping them to feel more connected to their mind, body and spirit. Through her own healing journey, she uncovered a truth that set her free to be a support to others on their own healing journey…
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Missy Caldwell
Integrative Therapist
Missy is a registered yoga teacher, with over 500 hours of training, and an additional 300 hour certification in yoga therapy. Missy has worked in mental health for nearly 20 years as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is experienced in working with individuals, couples and youth in various areas…
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Tony Caldwell
Jungian Analyst
As an analyst and a clinician, Tony specializes in life transitions, the “middle passage” of midlife, lifelong growth, & dreamwork as well as depression, anxiety, trauma, difficulty in relationships, grief/bereavement, matters related to human sexuality, and spiritual direction/personal growth, and more.
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Samantha Cutler
Integrative Counselor/Life Coach - Relationship & Communications Specialist
Through focused guidance and thought-provoking questions, Samantha empowers individuals and couples to delve into their patterns, behaviors, and communication styles, leading to improved understanding and connection.
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Dorothy Daniel
Integrative Life Coach, Energy Healer, Akashic Soul Reader
Dorothy Daniel is a certified Energy Healer and Transformational Life Coach, Akashic Soul Reader, and Author. She helps clients step into their innate wholeness, connect with their inner wisdom, and break free from what is holding them back so they can live life…
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Cara Dorris
Integrative Counselor
Cara’s helps identify the divine needs most alive in the client that are often hidden in shadowed behaviors & offered as metaphors in our dreams. Clients can engage with their shadow, receive the infinite wisdom within, and deepen their relationship to self.
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Maureen Doyle
Holistic Life Coach
Maureen Doyle helps her clients move from unconsciously living into a life filled with more awareness of self, others, and purpose. Her passion is learning about people’s stories, and joining them for part of their journey through life. Maureen is a high touch coach that will keep you moving forward…
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Lynee Durham
Integrative Therapist
Lynee is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a Master’s in Counseling. As a holistic counselor, she helps adults embrace wholeness, guiding them beyond self-judgment and imposed values. Her approach fosters self-acceptance, empowering clients to align with their true beliefs and step into their authentic lives…
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Marshall Fletcher
Integrative Counselor, Tarot Reader, Energy Worker
Marshall is a tarot reader and integrative counselor with a passion for symbology and human connection. She graduated from The School of Healing Arts at The Estuary where she formed that belief that healing yourself heals the world. -
Danielle Gilbert
Holistic Health & Life Coach
Danielle leads her clients along a path of awareness, better health, and self-care. She holds multiple certifications from both The Institute for Integrative Nutrition and The Estuary's School of Healing Arts…
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Ken Hoskins
Professional Counselor
Ken uses integrative approach, which begins by figuring out what is fundamentally important to you, what underlying values you hold sacred, and what needs to happen to fulfill those life values. Together, he will work with you to begin to build a path forward through mindfulness and committed action.
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Kate Martin
Licensed Professional Counselor
Kate has a holistic approach to mental health, considering the mind/body/spirit connection at all times. Sessions will often consist of a blend between traditional clinical work and deeper spiritual or energetic exploration in order to facilitate whole-self healing. -
Carissa Peck
Holistic Autoimmune Coach
Carissa specializes in the emotional and mental challenges of living with chronic illness, supporting individuals as they navigate autoimmune conditions and often carry guilt, frustration, or self-blame around their health.
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Hannah Peterson
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Hannah is a warm, integrative therapist supporting teens (15+), adults, couples, and families as they navigate life transitions, grief, identity exploration, relationship challenges, chronic illness, pain management, and the ongoing work of becoming more fully themselves.
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Stephanie J. Shockley
Integrative Therapist
Stephanie is an integrative counselor with decades of experience in the addiction and recovery community. She offers a holistic approach blending energy healing and talk therapy. She believes in providing a sacred space for her clients as they journey together towards healing…
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Sarah Silvi
Holistic Coach, Breathwork Practitioner
Sarah is a Holistic Coach and Breathwork Practitioner. She lovingly refers to herself as a ‘recovering cynic turned mystic.’ Sarah takes an integrative approach to healing where many different modalities are used in harmony to support the mind, body and spirit. She finds deep purpose helping others on their own journies…
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Lisa Tozer
Integrative Therapist
Lisa creates a safe, compassionate space for clients to navigate crises and cultivate self-awareness. Using an integrative approach—including EMDR, mindfulness, and experiential therapy, she guides individuals toward growth. Lisa believe mental healthcare should be accessible to people of all income levels…
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Mary Vaughan
Massage Therapy & Energy Healing
Mary studied Swedish and Advanced Swedish massage, Acupressure, Craniosacral Therapy, Neuromuscular Therapy, and Myofascial Release Techniques. She is also a Reiki Practitioner and have studied Energy Healing Techniques at The Estuary School of Healing Arts…
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Bob Windrow
Integrative Therapist
Bob’s focus on mind, body, spirit connection stems from his history with The Estuary and was reinforced through his Masters program for counseling through Transpersonal Psychology. He believes true healing can occur through authentic communication, connection, and compassion…
Give the Gift of Healing!
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to use toward any service or class at The Estuary?
Buy a GIFT CERTIFICATE online here today.
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Did you know?
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Testimonials
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“When I say that the counseling I have received and classes I have taken at The Estuary have been life altering in the most positive way, I am not exaggerating! The staff, the environment, and the overall philosophy are a blessing to my life. Highly recommend their services!”
M.B.
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“I began my journey at The Estuary in 2003. Over the years I have taken numerous classes, workshops and even done my therapeutic work here. My life is not only changed but enriched!”
J.E.
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I have attended classes and therapy at the Estuary over the last decade, and I could not be more grateful for the tremendous positive impact it has had on my life.
C.B.
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"The Estuary is the place I can feel what I believe in."
D.L.
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“When I started this process I thought I wanted to be cured. I realized what I really wanted was to feel whole. I found healing in this community.”
C.F.
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“It is so easy to see and feel why The Estuary has become your home away from home.”
A.S.