The Ranch Tennessee

About

The Ranch Tennessee is a residential treatment center situated on two thousand acres along the Piney River in Nunnelly, Tennessee, approximately one hour from Nashville. The program specializes in treating co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders with a particular emphasis on unresolved trauma as the driving force behind addictive and compulsive behaviors. The clinical framework is trauma-informed, skills-driven, and family-focused, employing measured-based care to enhance outcomes. Therapeutic programming integrates EMDR, somatic experiencing, equine-assisted therapy, adventure therapy, psychodrama, and expressive arts alongside evidence-based modalities including cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and motivational interviewing. The ranch environment itself functions as a therapeutic instrument, with the natural setting and equine interactions supporting nervous system regulation, embodied presence, and the restoration of relational trust. Clinical staff includes psychiatrists, EMDR specialists, and licensed therapists with advanced training in psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Depth Orientation

The Ranch Tennessee integrates somatic experiencing and EMDR within a uniquely experiential framework that includes equine therapy, psychodrama, and adventure therapy on a two-thousand-acre working horse ranch. This approach reflects a depth-oriented understanding that trauma healing requires engagement of the whole person — body, psyche, and relational field — not merely cognitive reprocessing. The ranch setting itself serves as a therapeutic container, with the natural landscape and animal-assisted work facilitating embodied presence and nervous system regulation that parallels the aims of formal somatic psychotherapy.

Treatment Modalities

Program Details

Best for

• Trauma-driven addiction
• Co-occurring disorders
• PTSD
• Relational trauma

Notable Clinicians

• Dr. Fuller — Board-certified Psychiatrist; completed Nashville Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program; Vanderbilt residency

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