A national network of physician-led mental health clinics has opened its first Upstate South Carolina location in Spartanburg, expanding access to evidence-based brain medicine treatments for residents across the region who have struggled to find relief through conventional psychiatric care.
Radial, which operates clinics across seven markets nationwide, opened its Spartanburg location inside North Grove Medical Park, situated about five minutes from downtown via Interstate 85 at Exit 24. The Spartanburg clinic is Radial’s third South Carolina location, joining existing practices in Myrtle Beach and Conway. A formal ribbon cutting ceremony is scheduled for May 19 at the North Grove Medical Park site.
The company’s expansion into Spartanburg is part of a broader national growth push backed by $50 million in Series A funding led by General Catalyst, one of the country’s leading venture capital firms. That capital is supporting the rollout of additional clinics in markets where patients face significant barriers to specialized psychiatric treatment, including long wait times, limited provider availability, and inadequate coverage for interventional therapies.
Radial’s clinical model centers on what its founders describe as precision brain medicine — moving away from trial-and-error medication regimens toward treatments calibrated to measurable biological and neurological markers. The clinic offers transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, an FDA-cleared treatment that uses targeted magnetic pulses to activate brain regions associated with mood regulation. For patients with depression who have not responded to traditional antidepressants, Radial also offers Spravato, a nasal spray formulation of esketamine approved by the FDA specifically for treatment-resistant depression. For patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, the clinic uses PRISM Neurofeedback, a technology-assisted approach that helps retrain dysregulated neural patterns.
All three modalities are covered by major insurance plans at Radial locations, including Medicare, Tricare, VA Community Care Network, Aetna, Cigna, United Healthcare, and many Blue Cross Blue Shield plans. The inclusion of VA-CCN coverage is particularly relevant in Spartanburg County, which is home to a substantial veteran population served by the Upstate Veterans Affairs health system.
John Capecelatro, chief executive and co-founder of Radial, has described the company’s mission as bringing rigorous, research-backed psychiatric treatment to communities where patients have historically lacked access to anything beyond standard medication management. Co-founder Owen Scott Muir serves as the company’s chief medical officer and has guided the clinical protocols deployed across all seven Radial locations.
Spartanburg County’s healthcare economy has seen sustained investment over the past several years, driven by the presence of Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, the region’s largest employer, and a growing cluster of specialty and outpatient providers serving the Upstate corridor. Radial’s entry into North Grove Medical Park places it alongside other established providers in a campus that has become a hub for outpatient specialty care in the northern Spartanburg metro area.
Mental health provider capacity remains a documented shortage across South Carolina, with the state consistently ranking near the bottom of national indices for access to mental health care relative to population need. Spartanburg County’s addition of a clinic offering interventional psychiatric treatments — particularly those covered by insurance — represents a meaningful expansion of the care options available to patients who might otherwise face months-long waits or out-of-pocket costs for comparable therapies in larger metro areas.
