The Next Step Behavioral Health - Knoxville

The Next Step Behavioral Health in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a comprehensive mental health facility providing individualized and family-focused outpatient services for children, adolescents, and adults. The center emphasizes a safe, trauma-informed, and person-centered environment, offering evidence-based therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and integration therapy, EMDR, and play therapy. Services are delivered through individual, group, family, and couples formats, both in-person and via a secure telehealth portal. Intensive Outpatient Programs are available for those experiencing high levels of distress, integrating skills training, mindfulness, and emotional regulation strategies.

The facility also offers specialized assessments and evaluations, including mental health, autism, substance use, and parenting assessments. Clients benefit from medication management for psychiatric disorders, parent skills training, and support for conditions such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, eating disorders, behavioral challenges, and substance use. The Next Step Behavioral Health is committed to strengthening family systems, promoting resilience, and empowering clients with tools for emotional regulation, coping, and healthy interpersonal relationships.