When you or a family member needs mental health services, call Saber Psychiatry at 615.678.7839. We are accepting new patients ages 2 through 65 , so call us to schedule an appointment. We provide services for people struggling with sleep disorders, anxiety, or mood and behavioral disorders.
- Comprehensive psychiatric evaluations
- We will test whether other medical conditions are responsible for the behavior/condition for which you are seeking treatment
- Identify emotional, behavioral, or developmental disorders
- Assess any other influences that we need to create a treatment plan
- Adults, adolescents, children
- Sleep disorders, including sleep testing:
- Narcolepsy
- Sleep apnea
- Nightmares, night terrors
- Bedwetting
- Attention Deficit Disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADD/ADHD)
- Anxiety disorders/adjustment disorders, including social anxiety with or without panic attacks, phobias, and more
- Depression, rumination
- Dysfunctional behaviors such as self-harm, body dysmorphia, etc.
- Bipolar disorder
- Psychoses
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenic-affective disorders
- Personality disorders
- Disordered thinking
- Related challenges
- Parent training, family therapy
- CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)
- Relationships between people and our environments (environmental health)
We are conveniently located in Brentwood, TN in the Nashville Metropolitan area.
Spotlight on School Refusal
School refusal, also called school phobia, is more serious than a simple – and understandable – preference to stay home and play rather than go to school.
Instead, it is an anxiety disorder where children or adolescents prefer to stay home and avoid school at all costs.
School phobia/school refusal affects up to 5% of elementary and middle-school children. Long-term consequences are severe, and may include:
- Academic failure
- Parent conflict
- Poor peer relationships
- Development of additional psychiatric illnesses
Symptoms include:
- Crying and pleading to be allowed to stay home
- Tantrums (more than usual)
- Running away from school, missing school without informing the parents
- Complaints of illness on school days (headaches, stomach aches, exhaustion)
- Frequent later arrivals with the parents’ knowledge
- While in school, frequent trips to the school nurse, other relief
If your child/adolescent shows more anxiety about school attendance than her or his peers, we can screen her/him for behavioral/emotional problems such as anxiety.
We recommend looking into the child’s school to learn whether bullying or other problems are legitimate factors to keep your child/adolescent away from the school. Even if administrators start working on the problem, your child/adolescent may need reassurance and therapy to make school attendance seem reasonable.
Saber Psychiatry will work with the family to develop a treatment plan. Treatment may focus on the child/adolescent, the entire family, or (most likely), a combination of the two. If school phobia or school refusal is threatening the quality of your child’s life, call us at 615.678.7839.