Contact and referrals

For patients and families

Treatment with ECT begins with a referral from a psychiatric provider; TMS and ketamine consultations are also usually arranged through your treating psychiatrist or primary care clinician. If you are not yet connected with a psychiatrist, ask your primary care office for a referral to psychiatry, or call the clinic below.

Consultations take place at the Grove Road office. Please bring a list of current medications, prior treatments and the names of your current clinicians; if you have had ECT, TMS or ketamine before, records of those courses are the single most useful thing you can bring.

For referring providers

The health system publishes dedicated lines for psychiatric providers referring for ECT. For TMS, ketamine or a general neuromodulation consultation, please send the referral to the Grove Road clinic and note “attention Dr. Hart”.

You will receive a summary at the start of treatment, at the end of an index course and at any change of plan, and continuation pharmacotherapy is prescribed jointly with you. The clinician pages on this site set out the evidence and the referral criteria in detail: ECT, TMS, ketamine, VNS.

What to send with a referral

A complete referral lets the consultation focus on the decision rather than on collecting records, and it shortens the time to a first treatment when the situation is urgent.

• Demographics, contact information, insurance, and the names of the referring and the continuing psychiatric provider.
• Primary diagnosis, target symptoms and current severity (a recent rating-scale score if available); presence of psychotic features, catatonic signs, suicidality, and food and fluid intake.
• Medication history with doses, durations and responses; prior ECT, TMS or ketamine and the response to each; current medications, including lithium, benzodiazepines, anticonvulsants and theophylline.
• Medical history with attention to cardiac disease, implanted devices, neurological conditions, aneurysm, epilepsy, pulmonary disease, dental status and pregnancy; a recent ECG, laboratory results and imaging if done.
• Baseline cognitive status or any neuropsychological testing.
• Capacity concerns, guardianship or power of attorney, and the patient’s own view of the treatment being considered.
• Urgency: inpatient status, active suicidality, inanition, catatonia, severe psychotic depression, or pregnancy with severe illness.

Where treatment happens

You cannot drive yourself home after ECT or after a ketamine treatment; plan for a responsible adult to accompany you.

If this is urgent

About this site

neuromodtxs.com is written and maintained by Adam Hart, MD, a psychiatrist in Greenville, South Carolina (about). It is educational: nothing here creates a physician–patient relationship, and treatment decisions are made individually at consultation. The site does not sell anything, carries no advertising and is independent of device and drug manufacturers. How it handles information about visitors is described in the privacy notice.

Last reviewed: October 26, 2026. Phone numbers and locations are as published by the health system on that date; if a number has changed, the health system’s own directory is authoritative.