Nisha Bhatt, PsyD, a Nashville, Tennessee-based clinical psychologist, works with adults, teens, and couples to help overcome challenges, heal from trauma, and ultimately reach their full potential. With warmth, understanding, and an emphasis on the therapeutic relationship, Dr. Bhatt encourages and empowers her clients to express themselves freely, build insight, strengthen emotional self-awareness, and promote personal growth. Often described by others as gentle and compassionate, Dr. Bhatt helps people heal through safety, attunement, and understanding their patterns in relationships.
Dr. Bhatt specializes in supporting individuals navigating anxiety, depression, grief and loss, existential concerns, relationship challenges, and periods of transition or uncertainty. Many of her clients come to therapy feeling stuck between competing roles, expectations, or identities, or grappling with questions about meaning, belonging, and connection. Her approach is relational and insight-oriented, with an emphasis on helping clients deepen self-understanding, strengthen relationships, and move toward more authentic and fulfilling lives.
Dr. Bhatt has experience working with individuals across the lifespan and takes special interest in working with adults and teens from diverse cultural, racial, and immigrant backgrounds, including adult children of immigrants and individuals from historically marginalized communities. Her work is grounded in an understanding of how culture, identity, family systems, and social context shape emotional well-being. She conceptualizes cases from a holistic, trauma-informed and psychodynamic lens. Dr. Bhatt strives to offer a collaborative, thoughtful space where clients feel seen in the fullness of their lived experience.
Nisha also facilitates a weekly interpersonal process group for adults interested in exploring relational patterns in real time within a supportive group setting. This group offers a unique opportunity to build self-awareness, practice vulnerability, and experience meaningful connection with others.
As a couples counselor, Nisha helps clients resolve communication problems and intimacy issues, which often go hand in hand. She encourages couples to deepen their relationship with their own self which empowers healing within the partnership.
In addition to her therapy work with individuals and couples, Dr. Bhatt conducts psychoeducational evaluations for ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), mood and personality disorders, learning difficulties, and other psychological concerns.
Dr. Bhatt earned her Doctor of Psychology degree and Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Midwestern University. Prior to that, she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Behavioral Neuroscience from Loyola University Chicago. She is a member of the American Psychological Association.
In her free time, Nisha enjoys spending quality time with family and friends, hiking with her dog, Bollywood dancing, and reading.
Dr. Bhatt is licensed in Tennessee, in addition to all 43 PSYPact states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
If you would like to learn more or schedule an appointment with Dr. Bhatt, we invite you to reach out to our Client Care team via email or telephone, or by scheduling a brief phone consultation.