Licensed Clinical Social Worker · Nashville, TN
Andrew Chapman, LCSW offers mindfulness-based psychotherapy, EMDR, Brainspotting, and daylong therapy intensives in Nashville, TN.
Nashville, TN
Andrew's Nashville office is designed to feel like a refuge — warm, unhurried, and intentional. In-person sessions are the heart of the practice. Telehealth is also available for Nashville-area clients.
About Andrew
Andrew Chapman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a psychotherapy practice in Nashville, TN. He is the founder and a guiding teacher of Wild Heart Meditation Center — a non-profit Buddhist community center — where he served as co-director for eight years and continues to serve on the Board of Directors and the Teacher's Council.
His approach to therapy is shaped by over six months of intensive silent meditation retreat, formal training in EMDR, Brainspotting, and Somatic Experiencing (Intermediate Level 2), and decades of engaged Buddhist practice. He has also been ordained as a Buddhist teacher — Rev. Andrew Chapman — through Wild Heart Meditation Center, following authorization through Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Community Dharma Leader Training Program.
Guest lecturer at:
Individual Services
Andrew works with individuals navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship challenges, and life transitions — using an integrated approach that combines evidence-based methods with mindfulness and body-based awareness.
Honest, compassionate one-on-one therapy for adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, substance use, grief, and major life transitions. Available in-person in Nashville, or via telehealth for Nashville-area clients.
$175 · 50-minute session
Schedule a consultation →A focused, full-day one-on-one therapy experience for clients who want to go deeper — faster. Offered in-person in Nashville on Thursdays. Ideal for trauma processing, transitions, or breaking through patterns that feel stuck in weekly sessions.
Learn more about intensives →Specialized trauma-processing modalities that work beyond talk therapy. These approaches engage the nervous system directly to help process experiences that words alone can't fully reach.
Explore the approach →For those drawn to Buddhist teachings and contemplative practice as a path of inquiry. These sessions explore the Dharma as a living framework for navigating suffering, impermanence, and the cultivation of a meaningful life — distinct from psychotherapy, but deeply complementary to it.
$175 · 50-minute session
Inquire about Dharma mentorship →Daylong Therapy Intensives
Weekly therapy is powerful — but sometimes you need more concentrated time to move through deep grief, trauma, or a pivotal life transition. A daylong intensive condenses months of work into a single immersive Thursday experience.
Your Day — New Client Schedule
Existing Client Intensive
Same format, skips history-taking hour
Follow-Up Session
50-min session, scheduled after your intensive
Who is an intensive right for?
Anyone who wants to make significant progress on a specific issue — trauma, grief, relationship patterns, or a major life transition — without the constraints of a 50-minute weekly frame.
Do I need to be an existing client?
Not necessarily. A brief consultation is needed first to ensure the format is a good fit for your current needs and history.
What is the Protector Profile?
Before processing begins, we spend time identifying the internal "protectors" — defenses, habits, or patterns — that naturally arise when we approach difficult material. Mapping these first makes the processing work safer and more effective.
Why Thursdays?
Intensives are offered on Thursdays, giving you a full day of focused work followed by time to rest and integrate before the weekend — rather than returning immediately to a full work week.
Are intensives available via telehealth?
No — daylong intensives are offered in-person only, at Andrew's Nashville office. The depth of body-based work involved makes in-person presence essential.
What about insurance?
Andrew does not bill insurance directly. A superbill is provided for clients who wish to seek out-of-network reimbursement from their insurance provider.
Therapeutic Approach
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a structured, evidence-based therapy for trauma. It helps the brain reprocess stuck memories so they lose their charge and emotional grip.
Brainspotting uses focused eye positions to locate and process trauma held deep in the subcortical brain — often reaching experiences that words and cognition can't fully access.
A body-oriented approach to healing trauma developed by Dr. Peter Levine. Rather than reliving events, clients learn to track and gently discharge physical tension held in the nervous system.
Grounded in decades of personal practice, Andrew weaves mindfulness and contemplative insights throughout his clinical work — not as an add-on, but as a foundational lens.
Philosophy
"When you can't change your experience, you can learn to change your relationship to it."
Therapy isn't just venting — it's looking deeply into patterns and softening their grooves, bit by bit, over time. That takes honesty, patience, and a willingness to practice outside of the office. There are 50 minutes of therapy and approximately 112 waking hours in every week. Both matter.
Happiness is a collection of good habits — not a destination you arrive at.
Self-compassion isn't a feeling — it's a practice.
Anger and resentment are understandable — and can become a neverending rabbit hole. The work involves internal boundary-setting, healthy expression, willingness for conflict, and practicing forgiveness as an antidote to staying stuck in blame.
Effective therapy requires practice outside the office. Insights are the beginning, not the end.
Common areas of focus: anxiety · depression · trauma & PTSD · substance use · grief · life transitions · relationship conflicts · family of origin · spiritual concerns
Groups & Community
Beyond his individual practice, Andrew is active in Nashville's contemplative community — leading meditation groups, facilitating workshops, and supervising clinicians at Experience Therapy Group, a practice built around experiential and body-based approaches to therapy.
Mindfulness Education
Structured group instruction in mindfulness meditation — learning to direct attention into the present and observe thoughts, emotions, and feelings with non-judgmental awareness. Offered at treatment centers and mental health settings in the Nashville area.
Group Practice
A Nashville-based group practice Andrew founded and clinically supervises, bringing together therapists who share a common orientation toward experiential, body-aware therapy. ETG clinicians offer individual therapy across a range of specialties, with fee options including low-fee slots for those who need more accessible care.
Visit experiencetherapygroup.com →Meditation Community
As co-director and guiding teacher, Andrew leads regular sits, dharma talks, and community events at Wild Heart Meditation Center — Nashville's non-profit Buddhist community space.
Visit Wild Heart →For Organizations
Andrew brings mindfulness training to workplaces, healthcare systems, universities, and treatment centers — with both one-day and weekend formats tailored to your team's needs and goals.
See training offerings →Buddhist Background
Andrew's Buddhist path began long before his clinical career. He founded Wild Heart Meditation Center — Nashville's non-profit Buddhist community — and served as its co-director and guiding teacher for eight years. He continues to serve on its Board of Directors and Teacher's Council.
He was authorized to teach through Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Community Dharma Leader Training Program and has since been ordained as a Buddhist teacher through Wild Heart Meditation Center. He has spent over six months of his life in intensive silent retreat — not as curriculum, but as a personal commitment to the path he shares with others. You can hear his teachings on the Wild Heart Podcast — practical Buddhist teachings for our everyday, ordinary lives.
"The Dharma isn't a philosophy to study from a distance — it's a set of tools for meeting your life, exactly as it is."
What Dharma Mentorship Explores
The Three Marks of Existence — impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and the nature of self
Meditation instruction, practice support, and guidance for deepening an existing practice
Applying teachings on suffering, compassion, and liberation to the texture of everyday life
Integration of retreat experiences and navigating what arises before, during, and after retreat
Questions about lay practice, ethics, sangha, and how Buddhism intersects with modern life
Spiritual Counseling is distinct from psychotherapy. Andrew holds both roles, but not simultaneously with the same person.
Inquire About Dharma MentorshipConnect with Wild Heart
Mindfulness Training
Andrew has developed evidence-informed mindfulness training programs for organizations, healthcare systems, and institutions that want to bring the benefits of contemplative practice to their staff and community.
His trainings combine education, guided practice, and facilitated dialogue — designed to meet participants where they are, whether they've never meditated or have an established practice.
A focused introduction to mindfulness foundations, practice, and application — suitable for teams and community groups.
A deeper dive over two days, including extended practice periods, group dialogue, and application to professional settings.
Multi-week mindfulness curricula for treatment centers, hospitals, and mental health organizations.
Academic lectures and presentations for universities, graduate programs, and professional conferences.
Andrew has been a guest lecturer for students, faculty, and mental health professionals at:
Topics include mindfulness, Buddhist psychology, trauma-informed care, and contemplative approaches in clinical practice.
Get in Touch
Reaching out is often the hardest part. Andrew offers a brief free consultation to help you determine whether working together would be a good fit.
Do you accept insurance?
Andrew does not accept insurance directly, but can provide a superbill that many clients use for out-of-network reimbursement. Check with your insurance provider about your OON benefits.
Do you offer telehealth?
Yes. Andrew offers secure telehealth sessions for Nashville-area clients who prefer the convenience of meeting from home. Daylong intensives are in-person only.
What's the first step?
Send an email or fill out the contact form. Andrew will respond to set up a brief free phone consultation so you can ask questions and determine if it's a good fit.
Do you work with specific issues?
Andrew works with anxiety, depression, trauma, substance use, grief, relationship issues, family of origin wounds, life transitions, and spiritual concerns — among others.
A Practice Andrew Founded
Andrew founded and clinically supervises Experience Therapy Group — a group practice in Nashville built around the same experiential, body-aware, and mindfulness-informed approach to therapy that guides his own work.
ETG's clinicians are trained in EMDR, Brainspotting, Somatic Therapy, IFS, EFT, and Expressive Arts — and the practice offers a range of fee options, including low-fee therapy for those who need it. If Andrew's schedule is full, or if a different therapist might be a better fit for your specific needs, ETG is a natural next step.
Visit experiencetherapygroup.com →ETG Offers
Individual therapy for anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationships & more
EMDR, Brainspotting, Somatic Therapy, IFS, EFT & Expressive Arts
Low-fee therapy options for clients who need accessible care
Couples counseling, teen & young adult therapy, religious deconstruction support
Clinically supervised by Andrew Chapman, LCSW
Andrew does not receive referral fees for clients who choose ETG — this is simply a practice he built and believes in.
