Thomas Neilson

Tom Neilson, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Nashville, TN.  He has had a long interest in meditation, contemplation, and the mystical traditions.  Since 2000, Tom has attended more than 35 mindfulness meditation retreats, and he is a fully certified Realization Process meditation teacher.  Tom also has advanced training in the Enneagram from Russ Hudson and the Enneagram Institute.  Tom’s education includes a B.A. in psychology from Wake Forest University, an M.A. in clinical psychology from Appalachian State University, and a Psy.D. in clinical psychology from Florida Tech.  More recently, Tom has received advanced training in psychedelic psychotherapy; he graduated from the California Institute of Integral Studies Certificate Program in Psychedelic-Assisted Research and Psychotherapy in 2021, he has completed MAPS training for MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy, and he has received training in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy from Polaris Insight Center.  Tom has been in private practice since 1997, specializing in general adult psychotherapy, couples therapy, mindfulness, the treatment of trauma, transpersonal psychotherapy and more recently, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.  Tom takes an integrative approach to his work, bringing together psychodynamic and experiential approaches with mindfulness and other teachings from the spiritual traditions.