Meet The Team Behind Your Care
We're a small, focused team. You'll know exactly who you're working with and why they built this clinic the way they did.
Thomas Tervort, DNP
Doctor of Nursing Practice · Lead Provider, Optimal TMS
Thomas earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions with extensive clinical experience spanning neurosurgery and cognitive health. His background includes years of hands-on work in neurosurgical care, where he served as a first assist in operative procedures and managed both preoperative and postoperative patient care. This experience has shaped a precise, safety-focused, and deeply attentive approach to patient treatment.
In addition to surgical care, Thomas has significant experience treating patients with concussions, traumatic brain injuries (TBI), dementia, and other forms of cognitive decline. This work has strengthened his understanding of the brain’s complexity and the importance of individualized, evidence-based treatment plans—principles that guide his work in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
His doctoral scholarly work focused on patient education and ensuring that individuals feel informed, supported, and confident in their care. As a result, he prioritizes spending meaningful time with each patient, making sure they fully understand their diagnosis, treatment options, and procedures. He believes that the best outcomes come from a combination of advanced treatment and empowered, well-informed patients.
Outside of his professional work, Thomas values time with his wife and six children. He also enjoys gardening and landscaping, finding it both grounding and rewarding to create and care for growing environments.
Credentials: Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Clinical Focus: Accelerated TMS protocols, treatment-resistant depression, neuroplasticity-based care models, patient education outcomes
Our Clinical Philosophy
Most TMS clinics are built around a device. We built ours around a belief: that understanding your treatment is part of the treatment.
That's not a slogan. It's the finding at the center of our lead provider's doctoral research that patients who are genuinely educated about what's happening in their brain, why a specific protocol was chosen, and what to expect in the weeks that follow, achieve measurably better outcomes than patients who don't have that context.
Everything about how we practice follows from that... The depth of our consultations... The way we explain neuroplasticity before we talk about magnets... The reason this website exists the way it does… with real answers, cited research, and honest acknowledgment of what TMS can and can't do.
Mission Statement:
Our mission is to deliver evidence-based, outcomes-driven mental health care through advanced TMS and integrative psychiatric services that restore hope, improve function, and create lasting change. We are committed to combining clinical excellence, scientific rigor, and compassionate care to bring innovative treatments to patients while maintaining the highest standards of safety, ethics, and credibility.
Vision Statement:
Our vision is to become the most trusted leader in modern mental health treatment by redefining how depression, trauma, and treatment-resistant conditions are treated. We aim to bridge innovation and evidence pushing the boundaries of neuroscience and psychiatric care while remaining grounded in proven research, measurable outcomes, and patient-centered healing. We envision a future where accelerated TMS and other advanced therapies are accessible, respected, and recognized as frontline solutions for lasting recovery.
Core Goals & Values:
Clinical Excellence Through Evidence-Based Care: Deliver the highest standard of treatment by using proven protocols, measurable outcomes, and continuous clinical review to ensure every patient receives safe, effective, and personalized care.
Responsible Innovation: Lead with innovation by adopting emerging therapies and accelerated treatment models only when supported by strong research, clinical integrity, and real patient outcomes.
Community Trust & Referral Partnerships: Build lasting relationships with providers, therapists, hospitals, and referral partners by being a reliable, transparent, and collaborative clinical resource in the community.
Patient Access & Affordability: Expand access to life-changing treatment by creating affordable pathways to care, reducing barriers to entry, and helping patients receive effective treatment faster.
Outcome-Driven Leadership: Use data, patient results, and continuous improvement to guide decisions, validate treatment success, and strengthen our position as a trusted clinical leader.
Optimal TMS was built from years of watching the gap between what the research showed was possible and what most patients were actually receiving.
Our lead provider's background begins in neurosurgery. He spent years working as a first assist in operative procedures, managing complex pre- and post-operative care across neurosurgical cases, concussions, and traumatic brain injury. That clinical foundation was precise, technically demanding, and focused on the brain in ways most psychiatric providers aren't. This shapes how we practice.
Before founding Optimal TMS, he served as clinical director of an established regional brain health clinic, where he built and led the TMS program: developing clinical protocols, training clinical staff, and overseeing treatment for 1,000+ patients across treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, post-concussion syndrome, and traumatic brain injury. That experience at scale across a complex patient population, using accelerated protocols before most clinics had heard of them is the clinical foundation this clinic is built on.
It also clarified something that became the operating principle of Optimal TMS: The patients who got the most out of TMS were the ones who understood what was happening… why the protocol was designed the way it was, what to expect, and how to actively take advantage of the neuroplasticity window treatment created. That insight is the reason this clinic exists the way it does.
LOCATIONS
Growing to serve patients nationally.
Find an Optimal TMS Near You
Our Las Vegas, Nevada and Springville, Utah clinics are open now. Additional locations are in development. As we expand, our clinical model travels with us… the same protocols, the same education-first philosophy, the same commitment to honest answers. We're not building a chain of TMS machines. We're building a care model to reach the people that need it most.
OPEN NOW
Las Vegas, NV
8981 W Sahara Ave,
Suite 270
Las Vegas, NV 89117
(702) 623-1140
OPENING SOON
Conroe, TX & Casper, WY
Additional locations in development. Accelerated protocols available to traveling patients now.
Note for traveling patients: Our 1-day and 5-day protocols make it practical to travel for treatment. Visit your preferred location page for nearby hotel recommendations and travel tips.
What integrated care looks like at Optimal TMS
Personalized treatment protocols based on your specific symptoms
Cutting-edge accelerated protocols for less downtime
Continuous symptom monitoring and protocol adjustment
Integration with therapy and lifestyle optimization
FDA-Cleared and evidence based
Most patients arrive at TMS after a long road and years of medications, therapy that helped but didn't resolve things, or a sense that the standard playbook has been exhausted. We take that history seriously.
Your consultation isn't a checklist. It's a real conversation about what you've tried, what worked partially, what didn't, and what your goals are. We'll tell you honestly if we think TMS is the right next step and if we think something else should come first, we'll say that too.
If you have an existing psychiatrist, therapist, or primary care provider, we'll work alongside them. We'll communicate, share notes, and coordinate care. If you don't have existing providers, we can be your starting point medication management, therapy, and TMS under one roof.
Ready to learn if TMS is right for you?
A brief conversation is all it takes. No pressure, no commitment - just clarity.