Nashville Mental Health Resources
If you’re looking for mental health help in Nashville, you don’t have to understand the whole system before you make a call. The Mental Health Hotline can talk through what you’re dealing with and point you toward the kind of support that fits. Call 866-903-3787 any hour of the day or night.
If this is an emergency
If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911.
If you are in emotional distress or thinking about suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24/7.
In Davidson County, Mental Health Cooperative answers 24/7 at 615-726-0125 and can send a mobile team to you.
The Mental Health Hotline is an information and referral service. It is not a substitute for emergency services.
If you’re looking for mental health help in Nashville, the reason could be almost anything: depression that has flattened everything out, anxiety that won’t switch off, drinking or using more than you meant to, a diagnosis you’re still learning to live with, or a stretch that has simply gotten heavier than you can carry on your own. You don’t need a referral or a diagnosis to start asking, and none of it needs to reach an emergency before it counts.
In Davidson County, one organization carries most of the weight. Mental Health Cooperative is the crisis response team the state designates for Nashville: it answers 615-726-0125 every hour of every day for adults and children, sends mobile teams out to homes, schools and workplaces, and runs a walk-in crisis treatment center on Cumberland Bend in Metro Center where you can be evaluated without an appointment. If you’d rather start with the state line, 855-274-7471 reaches the same network.
Cost is the other wall people hit, and roughly one in eight working-age adults in Nashville has no health insurance. Mental Health Cooperative takes TennCare plans and is a Behavioral Health Safety Net provider, which covers people with low incomes and no insurance; its enrollment team is at 615-743-1555. There’s more on mental health insurance coverage if that’s the sticking point.
You don’t need to know which of these is right before you reach out. The figures further down describe Nashville in aggregate; they aren’t a description of you. Whether you’re looking for yourself or for someone you care about, the Mental Health Hotline can help you sort through the options at 866-903-3787. More Tennessee mental health resources are collected on the state page.
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Where to Get Help in Nashville
These are the numbers and addresses worth having. Some are for the worst night of your life and some are for a Tuesday afternoon when you just can’t face the week, and both of those are reasons to call. If you’re not sure what happens when you dial, here’s what 988 actually does.
Mental Health in Nashville, by the Numbers
Three figures that say something about the conditions people here are dealing with. They set context for the resources above rather than explaining any one person’s situation.
Figures come from the CDC PLACES 2025 release, which models city-level estimates from 2023 BRFSS survey responses for adults 18 and over. Nashville ranks 6th of the 100 cities in this series for diagnosed depression, where 1 is the highest rate, 15th for frequent mental distress and 40th for adults without health insurance. Tennessee cities cluster near the top of the depression measure, and the state median is higher than Nashville’s own figure. Frequent mental distress means 14 or more poor mental health days in the past month. Loneliness and social support were not measured in Tennessee. Model-based estimates describe a population, not any one person in it.
Working out where to start is often the hardest part, especially when you’re already worn down and the list of numbers is long. The Mental Health Hotline can talk through what’s going on and help you find the right next step in Nashville, at any hour. Call 866-903-3787 when you’re ready.