DayBreak Treatment Center of Tennessee

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Therapy and assessments for children.

Our team of mental health professionals is here to help you and your loved ones manage emotional, mental and behavioral health challenges. We tailor care to fit your unique needs – and help make sure you feel safe, accepted and supported along the way.

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Help children and teens navigate emotional, behavioral, and developmental challenges while building resilience and coping skills.

Child & Adolescent Therapy

Uses structured exercises and strategies to help individuals better understand and manage unhelpful thoughts and emotions.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

Offers comprehensive mental health support through structured daytime treatment designed to promote healing, stability and recovery.

Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)

Teaches mindfulness, emotional regulation and stress management techniques to help individuals manage intense emotions.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)

Helps individuals achieve personal growth and positive change by exploring how past experiences influence the way they think, feel and relate to others.

Psychodynamic therapy

Helps individuals gradually face and manage anxiety through a step-by-step, confidence-building process.

Exposure therapy

Uses guided, structured techniques to help individuals process and cope with traumatic memories.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Hi, I’m Ally Maness, LCSW! I am a therapist who specializes in working with children, adolescents and families to help navigate life’s challenges and changes. I offer an empathetic, supportive and safe space where young people and their families can feel seen, valued, and supported.
My work is grounded in compassion, curiosity, and the belief that all behavior is communication. I strive to balance validation and accountability – respecting each client’s emotions and experiences while also challenging them to take ownership of their growth. I believe meaningful change happens through honesty, trust, and a shared commitment to progress.
With training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), and Collaborative Problem Solving, I tailor my approach to meet each client where they are. Whether we’re working on emotional regulation, communication, trauma recovery, or strengthening family dynamics, my goal is to help clients build practical skills and deepen their connections.

Chelsea is currently a primary therapy at Daybreak Treatment Center. Chelsea values creating a safe therapeutic space for children, adolescents, and families to grow while attending Daybreak. Chelsea currently specializes in Dialectical Behavior Therapy working with clients presenting with a variety of emotional challenges and difficulties. Chelsea works collaboratively with families and adolescents to help find their life worth living goals. Additionally, Chelsea helps adolescents reach their goals by finding coping skills and strategies to regulate their emotions and help them through distress. Chelsea enjoys working with families to help understand current problems to address while finding a collaborative approach to help increase effective communication and interactions in the home environment.

Outside of her therapeutic work Chelsea enjoys spending time with family and friends as well as her two dogs: Nala and Lilo. Chelsea also enjoys spending time reading, watching movies, and spending time outside.

Lauren Crum specializes in working with children and adolescents experiencing suicidal ideation and self-harm, anxiety, and behavioral issues. Lauren is dedicated to creating a comfortable, honest, and safe space for her patients to process big feelings. She has extensive experience supporting children on the autism spectrum, those with special needs, and a variety of behavioral challenges. Lauren builds trust by learning about her patients' interests and meeting them where they are, engaging with them as individuals capable of growth. Utilizing dialectical behavior therapy, she balances acceptance with change to help improve quality of life. Outside of her professional life, Lauren enjoys spending time with her husband, two cats, and two dogs, as well as reading, gardening, and watching reality TV.

Leslie Turner is a licensed professional counselor who has worked in many roles at Daybreak since joining in 2017. Leslie is dedicated to helping her team provide the best possible care for clients by teaching them skills that will serve them long after their time at Daybreak. Thorough, understanding, and genuine, Leslie is passionate about collaborating with clients and fellow staff members on solving problems at all levels. She is proud to be a member of the Daybreak team and looks forward to continuing to serve her community.
 
A lifelong Memphian, Leslie lives in East Memphis with her husband, two dogs, and a cat. She enjoys trying new coffee shops, perusing bookstores, and playing board games with friends.

I joined the team at Daybreak Treatment Center in 2016 as the Director of Admissions. The incredible passion this program has for empowering young people to build their life worth living was contagious the very first time I met our founders, Dr Garry Del Conte and Tina Mills. They shared with me their original motivation to create Daybreak in 1992, to treat children with “one foot in their real life” to decrease the amount of time that kids needed to spend inside acute hospitalization. Over the years they continued to study the outcomes for our patients and around 2010 Dr. Del Conte introduced Daybreak to Dialectical Behavior Therapy, forever changing the therapeutic orientation of Daybreak. Never content to be “informed” or “adherent” Dr. Del Conte tirelessly pursued Linehan-DBT™ Board of Certification approval for himself as a clinician and for the Daybreak program as a whole. To this day, we remain the only partial hospitalization program for adolescents that is certified by the Boad, confirming that we do DBT exactly the way it is written and that we continue to meet the exacting requirements to maintain this prestigious honor.

Along the way Daybreak was also recognized by the American Counseling Association as the 2016 Practice of the Year and our research has been published in multiple peer reviewed journals and textbooks. It is humbling to think that Daybreak not only shapes the lives of individual young people but has also shaped the field of mental health. In fact, every DBT certified clinician in the mid-south has roots here at Daybreak. In 2018 our founders chose to pursue some of their other passions, such as building a dream lake house and traveling the country in an adventure van, passing the tremendous responsibility of leading Daybreak into the next 25 years to me, gifting me with the opportunity to put my personal mark on their unmatched legacy.

With a history like that, it’s hard to imagine any place that would have been a more natural fit for me to spend my career. Growing up I knew I wanted to help people, but I wasn’t sure how to do that. I made it most of the way toward going to law school until I spent a summer volunteering with a special needs adolescent and got a firsthand look at how kids with challenges really meant a whole family facing hurdles. From that summer on (all the way back in 1996) I knew who I wanted to help, children who are facing hurdles and the adults who are doing their best to help them cross them. Law school got erased from the agenda and a master’s in marriage and family counseling took its place. Jobs in hospitals, always on the adolescent unit, nonprofit in home counseling and a private practice focusing on parent coaching have been my steppingstones to Daybreak.

All told, I am marking my 28th year in the people helping field this year and I am most proud that I have kept a promise I made myself almost three decades ago, that I would always talk to the adult sitting across my desk the way I would want to be talked to, honest, kind and with purpose and that I would always treat every child the way I would want someone to treat my child, with kindness, challenge and faith in their ability to feel better.

As we enter our 34th year of treatment Daybreak stands rooted in our history and looking forward to new ways to get our top-notch treatment into the hands of more children and more families. Our very first marketing tag line was every day gets a little brighter. It still does, the same way it always has, one young person being treated respectfully, compassionately and competently at a time.

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