Emily Perrotto, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC

Emily Perrotto, our Nurse Practitioner, loves to care for the whole family and enjoys seeing patients of all ages across the lifespan. She deeply values the promotion of healthy lifestyles that support optimal mind-body wellness, by utilizing a variety of holistic health modalities that she enjoys researching on a continual basis.

She completed her initial master’s degree in nursing (MSN) as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Frontier Nursing University in Eastern Kentucky in 2020, and went on to pursue a post-graduate board certification in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing in 2023, at East Tennessee State University.

She is happily married to a native Tennessean, and they and their three children love to call Wilson County their home. She is very excited to be able to care for her own community here. Prior to 2019, she grew up and spent many years in upstate New York, where she started her career in healthcare nearly two decades ago.

Initially, Emily began shadowing a local pediatrician afterschool, as her desire to work in healthcare had begun in early childhood. She dreamed of pursuing a career in medicine to help and be in service to others, as she has always felt passionate about caring for any individual in need, which is the greatest gift of nursing.

After graduating high school, she became a certified nurse assistant who loved caring for and bonding with the geriatric population, and began attending nursing school at Maria College of Albany. Upon starting her career as a Registered Nurse, she was able to learn hands-on from her experience in a variety of clinical settings and specialties; from hospital-based neurology and trauma, home hospice and palliative care, to outpatient integrative medicine that focused on chronic and complex illnesses. While she attended nurse practitioner school, she was able to work through the beginning of the pandemic supporting patients in their recovery of COVID at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

After graduating from her initial Master's of Nursing program and completing her board-certification as a FNP, she worked as a clinical instructor in Belmont University's BSN program, and as a primary care provider seeing patients across the lifespan, gaining experience treating numerous acute and chronic conditions.

During this time in primary care, she developed a growing interest to learn more about the unique health needs for her psychiatric patients that she felt were underserved in general practice. After referring many patients to mental health specialists, she decided it was time to further her education in order to be dedicated to serving her patients with more a holistic approach to psychiatry, and bridge together the existing gap in healthcare between the mind and body - as they are truly not separate entities.

Thus, she went on to pursue her PMHNP board-certification, and remains diligent to address symptoms that are both physiological and psychological in nature, as the numerous systems of our bodies constantly influence one another, and deserve the thorough attention to create a harmonious healthy balance.

Emily truly believes in treating each person as a unique individual with a holistic approach, and desires to work toward understanding and investigating the root causes of each patients' symptoms to promote their optimal well-being, ensuring that everyone is offered personalized care aligned with their values and goals. It is her intention to help every person feel their best, by working together towards their health goals, and feels grateful to have the ability to care for patients of all ages and backgrounds.

She is overjoyed to have the opportunity to practice here at Mid TN Integrative Therapeutics and wishes to fulfill her calling to support her community in feeling both happy & healthy!