About Us
Our Mission
While the collegiate experience is often rewarding, it can also be overwhelming. We’re here to help when the waters become turbulent.
Nack serves students who are experiencing more acute mental health conditions than what university counseling centers are designed to treat. We aim to prevent students from being hospitalized, taking (or extending) leaves of absence, or suffering in silence on campus, and we partner with universities to seamlessly transition students to our intensive outpatient program (IOP).
Seeking treatment can be an intimidating process, especially as an emerging adult in college. Hence, we’ve thoughtfully constructed our admissions process, therapeutic program, clinical team, and physical spaces to optimize accessibility and comfort for students to engage in IOP treatment.
Our chief goal is to provide excellent, personalized care that allows students to achieve their individual definitions of mental wellness.
Our Clinical Philosophy
We honor the complexity and unique stories of each individual. Thus, we acknowledge everyone is formed by social, neurological, cognitive, physiological, and emotional factors that need to be considered in context and incorporated into healing. We believe that our role is to consistently show up with compassion, so that we may journey with clients in progressing towards the specific intentions they choose for treatment. We do this by supporting our clients with cognitive awareness, emotional resilience, social connectedness, behavioral wellness, and meaningful presence. These principles inform every moment we share with clients.
Our Story
We’re often told that college should be the best years of our lives. For many, that doesn’t ring true, including our leadership at Nack. We built a resource we wish we had as college students.
Two months into his freshman year of college, our founder, Kyle, woke up to a phone call that would flip his world upside down. A close childhood friend, Nick Ackies (nicknamed “Nack”), had been killed in a shooting.
Kyle struggled with the grief of Nick’s death for several months on campus, isolating himself with emotions that he felt nobody on campus would understand. Kyle eventually sought help at his university counseling center, but he found that the sessions were not frequent enough for the instability he was feeling. He also yearned to meet other students who could relate to the severity of his depression and anxiety. The same sentiments applied when he experienced suicidal thoughts as an upperclassman and the only option was to search for a private practice therapist away from campus.
So, Kyle started a program that specifically serves college students who need convenient access to intensive outpatient (IOP) services, where they can engage in therapy multiple times per week and build community with students experiencing similar challenges.
