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Dr. Daniel Barton

My name is Daniel Barton, and I come from a family that has been involved in the mental health care of Nashvillians for more than three decades.

My father is a psychiatrist and educator, and one of the three founders of Alive Hospice. My mother is a clinical social worker and marital therapist who, along with colleagues, helped bring the mediation movement to Tennessee. My brother is also a psychiatrist practicing in Nashville. That family history shaped how I understand this work, not as something abstract or trend-driven, but as a long-standing commitment to thoughtful, grounded psychiatric care.

After more than twenty-five years practicing psychiatry, I continue to find the work deeply meaningful. In 2012, I founded Nashville Ketamine Center as the first outpatient ketamine clinic in the Southeast because I believed there needed to be additional options for people who continued to struggle despite medications, psychotherapy, and other traditional treatments. Read more →

• Founder, Nashville Ketamine Center
• The Southeast's First Outpatient Ketamine Clinic
• Harvard-Trained Psychiatrist
• National Lecturer and Instructor on Ketamine Therapies