CHRISTY CALL, MA, NCC, LPC-MHSP, LMFT
Owner, Clinical Director
DBT & RO DBT Therapist, DBT & RO DBT Skills Trainer
DBT & RO DBT Therapist, DBT & RO DBT Skills Trainer
Click here to Email Christy | Phone: 423.225.2329
Christy Call graduated from Northwestern University with both undergraduate and graduate degrees before obtaining her master’s in professional counseling from Richmont Graduate University. She is a National Certified Counselor and holds a license in Professional Counseling, with Mental Health Service Provider and Approved Supervisor statuses (TN #3618), as well as a license in Marriage and Family Therapy (TN #1339). She has extensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy and the treatment of eating disorders.
Christy Call has owned and managed Wise Mind Collective (formerly known as “Christy Call’s Private Practice”) since 2014. She has clinical experience in both the inpatient and outpatient levels of care for both eating disorder and substance-abuse treatment. She is intensively trained in standard DBT (Psychwire, Behavioral Tech 2020), level-two trained in RO DBT (Radically Open Blended Learning 2023) and has been practicing both since 2014 and 2021 respectively. Recently, she has been exploring these approaches (and others) through a neurodivergent lens. Christy is also trained in Exposure with Response Prevention for OCD and phobias as well as Internal Family Systems for eating, trauma and attachment issues (using a more IFS-informed approach than not). At the end of the day, she subscribes to a dialectical approach, which includes the limitations of a dialectical approach.
Over the years, Christy’s work has focused on collaboration with not only her clients and their families, but also with her colleagues and the greater community. Christy is a member in good standing in the following professional associations: The American Counseling Association, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals, the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselors Association, the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies and RenewED. She serves as team leader for her DBT consultation team, which has met weekly over the past several years and has grown to include Wise Mind Collective colleagues Abby Horton, Adeline Voss and Anna Kosky. Christy also provides supervision for both pre-graduate and post-graduate level clinicians and consultation to others working in the field. Throughout her career, she has had the privilege of collaborating with a number of clinicians in addition to parents, teachers and other advocates; she is grateful to have the opportunity to continue to do so.
A lover of all-things-language, Christy has been known to encourage her clients with sayings such as, “Dip your toes in,” and “There’s more than one way to skin a cat,” and “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.” Another favorite: “It takes a village.” We don’t know what we don’t know, and Christy is a firm believer in figuring things out together. Christy enjoys working with self-diagnosed and later-in-life diagnosed Autists and ADHDers as well as those who are wondering, Do I have a neurodivergent brain? and are wanting a formal assessment (let's do it!). She works well with people who are princess-and-the-pea princesses as well as people who don't quite get why fireworks are fun; people willing to be curious about acceptance and change, even if just a little, and those who don’t fully know why they’re in therapy, but they do know they're uncomfortable/told to be there/have been in therapy for years and nothing seems to be working/Everything is fine, forced smile/Are we there yet?... . Christy enjoys helping people take themselves more and less seriously, as needed. She also loves working with people who have been treated as though they are too much or not enough and have begun to believe it themselves.
Christy Call has owned and managed Wise Mind Collective (formerly known as “Christy Call’s Private Practice”) since 2014. She has clinical experience in both the inpatient and outpatient levels of care for both eating disorder and substance-abuse treatment. She is intensively trained in standard DBT (Psychwire, Behavioral Tech 2020), level-two trained in RO DBT (Radically Open Blended Learning 2023) and has been practicing both since 2014 and 2021 respectively. Recently, she has been exploring these approaches (and others) through a neurodivergent lens. Christy is also trained in Exposure with Response Prevention for OCD and phobias as well as Internal Family Systems for eating, trauma and attachment issues (using a more IFS-informed approach than not). At the end of the day, she subscribes to a dialectical approach, which includes the limitations of a dialectical approach.
Over the years, Christy’s work has focused on collaboration with not only her clients and their families, but also with her colleagues and the greater community. Christy is a member in good standing in the following professional associations: The American Counseling Association, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals, the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselors Association, the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies and RenewED. She serves as team leader for her DBT consultation team, which has met weekly over the past several years and has grown to include Wise Mind Collective colleagues Abby Horton, Adeline Voss and Anna Kosky. Christy also provides supervision for both pre-graduate and post-graduate level clinicians and consultation to others working in the field. Throughout her career, she has had the privilege of collaborating with a number of clinicians in addition to parents, teachers and other advocates; she is grateful to have the opportunity to continue to do so.
A lover of all-things-language, Christy has been known to encourage her clients with sayings such as, “Dip your toes in,” and “There’s more than one way to skin a cat,” and “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.” Another favorite: “It takes a village.” We don’t know what we don’t know, and Christy is a firm believer in figuring things out together. Christy enjoys working with self-diagnosed and later-in-life diagnosed Autists and ADHDers as well as those who are wondering, Do I have a neurodivergent brain? and are wanting a formal assessment (let's do it!). She works well with people who are princess-and-the-pea princesses as well as people who don't quite get why fireworks are fun; people willing to be curious about acceptance and change, even if just a little, and those who don’t fully know why they’re in therapy, but they do know they're uncomfortable/told to be there/have been in therapy for years and nothing seems to be working/Everything is fine, forced smile/Are we there yet?... . Christy enjoys helping people take themselves more and less seriously, as needed. She also loves working with people who have been treated as though they are too much or not enough and have begun to believe it themselves.