Brooks Healing Center

From the rural hill country outside Nashville, Brooks Healing Center offers the practical, relationship-based support patients need for lasting recovery from substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. Supported by hands-on staff in their residential facility, patients discover lifestyle improvements such as mood stabilization, long-term sobriety, enhanced self-confidence and social skills, and better medication management.Develop Recovery Skills in Community & NatureBrooks’s approach blends evidence-based treatment, a positive community, and the power of nature. Days typically follow a structured schedule that includes therapy sessions, medical check-ins, group activities, and personal time. Throughout this routine, patients learn life skills, heal from trauma, and work through emotions using adventure, garden, and art therapy. The program further helps patients sustain their new lives using the 12 Steps and classes about relapse prevention.Recover in the CountrysideTucked away on 36 acres along the Duck River, Brooks offers a safe space to slow down and refocus on what really matters. Their technology-free setting helps patients reconnect with themselves, others, and the natural world. Carrying on its origins as a rural bed and breakfast, the facility offers gender-specific accommodations and chef-prepared meals with ingredients from their patient-nurtured garden and local sources. Patients also have access to river sports, fitness, and wellness offerings.Transition Home Smoothly with AftercareAs patients prepare to leave treatment, Brooks Healing Center develops an aftercare plan toward the end of each patient’s stay. The plan includes follow-up care, continued therapy, and strategies for maintaining progress, as well as an alumni program that keeps the conversation going as patients adjust to life back home.