Beyond Healing Center adds psychiatry to service offerings

Ryan Savage: There aren’t enough mental health providers to serve the region’s needs.

Seven years after launching, Beyond Healing Center LLC, a Springfield-based outpatient mental health provider, has added a new practice to its list of services.

Beyond Healing Psychiatry launched in May at 323 S. Patton Ave., said company CEO Ryan Savage. The organization entered a two-year lease with Williams Building LLC for the 1,400-square-foot space, he said, declining to disclose the rate.

Savage said the building is largely used by the new psychiatry practice, though some therapists also see clients there. However, he said the majority of Beyond Healing Center’s team of 23 professional counselors work out of the organization’s 3,800-square-foot headquarters at 325 South Ave. The center opened in 2019 and is owned by Savage, his wife, Jennifer Savage, and Bridger Falkenstien.

Brandon Finley is currently the lone provider of services for Beyond Healing Psychiatry. A psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, Finley said he is board-certified through the American Nurses Credentialing Center and received a master’s in nursing in 2025 from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Savage said his staff had for years been hearing from clients and therapists who referred people to Beyond Healing that the area needs more high-quality psychiatric care.

“There just are not enough providers to serve the need in our region, and we’ve seen that from the very, very beginning,” he said, noting that it wasn’t unusual for would-be psychiatry clients to end up on provider waiting lists. “It could be as long as six months, and our clients were really needing care faster than that.”

As of December 2025, 40% of the U.S. population lives in a mental health professional shortage area, according to a study from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.

Aside from psychiatry, Beyond Healing Center’s services include counseling, as well as several therapies, such as group and play, according to its website.

Client service
By providing psychiatric services, Beyond Healing has added collaborative care that can serve clients within the organization as well as those receiving therapy elsewhere, Savage said.

“We have the capacity now to have collaborative relationships between providers,” he said. “So, when one of our healing therapists makes referrals to Brandon, it’s not simply a fax over with a summary document and a referral.”

Finley is part of Beyond Healing Center’s one-on-one and weekly case consultation meetings among its providers, Savage said.

“There’s bidirectional influence between the practices, which just increases the level of care for our clients,” Savage said, noting the client total for the center has reached 750 people monthly, an all-time high.

Finley, who said he previously worked as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner for Springfield Psychiatry & Addiction Medicine LLC before coming to Beyond Healing, said in his first few weeks at work, he’s already approaching around 140 clients in his caseload.

“I could pretty well handle double that at the moment,” he said, noting his clientele primarily consist of those who followed him from Springfield Psychiatry as well as Beyond Healing Center clients. “We’ve started as of the last couple of weeks having clients from the community come in as well.”

Savage said the organization also launched a website for Beyond Healing Psychiatry, which is averaging 500 weekly users.

“It just is really evidenced by the demand of the region for good psychiatric care. Once people find out that there’s availability to be able to see a provider within a week or even within a couple days, that’s something that people get excited to have the opportunity to access,” Savage said. “But then also good psychiatric care comes along with being able to understand and conceptualize the whole human and the whole story.”

Finley said his new patient appointments are typically an hour long and involve a lot of history taking, such as past medications, past diagnoses and prior trauma. The practice offers psychiatric evaluation and medication management for adults, adolescents and veterans navigating challenges such as anxiety, depression, trauma-related symptoms and attention difficulties.

“It’s really important to me to spend time with that client, especially in those deeper parts, to make sure that I have a full, good grasp of the picture of what’s going on,” he said.

Growth fuel
While Savage expects the psychiatry practice to grow the organization’s already record-high client count, he doesn’t want to make specific projections just yet.

“Honestly, we’ve seen it already exceed all expectations from the time we started,” he said, adding that Beyond Healing counts 23 providers on the psychotherapy clinical team, who are contract employees. Like Beyond Healing’s client count, its clinical provider count is another high for the organization, he said. “The majority of our professional counselors are operating in full caseloads where they’re carrying anywhere between 25 and 45 active client cases, depending on their availability.”

Savage said one reason for Beyond Health’s growth is continued normalization of mental health services in U.S. culture.

“There’s less stigma around who seeks out mental health services,” he said. “I think a lot of our clients find their experience with us novel. One of the things that sets us apart is that we do our best to collude with the medical model, when necessary, but also aren’t the first to jump in and diagnose.”

When it comes to receiving services, Savage said the medical model says something needs to be “wrong.”

“When you come to Beyond Healing, that’s not how you are welcomed into the space,” he said. “Anyone has agency to pursue services at Beyond Healing, whether you have a diagnosis or not.”

The psychiatry practice is in-network with Aetna, Cigna and Optum, with additional insurance plans to be added as credentialing is completed. It also welcomes self-pay patients. Continuing to grow the clinical team is among goals for Beyond Healing, Savage said, adding Finley’s client caseload will likely fill up within the next year.

“I’m hoping to show that we can do this differently. It doesn’t have to be kind of what the status quo is now inside of the existing health community, specifically on the provider side of things,” Finley said. “We can create more of a humanistic approach to how we care for our clients.”