Frequently Asked Questions
Is therapy right for me?
Therapy provides a safe place to explore and address your mental, emotional, and spiritual needs, set healthy boundaries, get unstuck, learn coping skills, take the trigger out of trauma, deepen intimacy in your relationships, increase healthy communication skills, or get to know yourself a little better. If any of that sounds like something that might be helpful, therapy is for you.
What should I be looking for in a therapist?
The relationship you will have with your therapist is the most important component of therapeutic success. You should feel comfortable with your therapist. If you don’t, opening up and exploring vulnerable thoughts and emotions will be more difficult than it has to be. Take some time to schedule a mutual-fit call to see how you feel when you are sitting with the therapist. Trust your gut!
is therapy confidential?
Therapy is confidential. Your information cannot be shared without your written consent. There are some exceptions required by law to this rule. Exceptions include
If there is suspected child, dependent adult, or elder abuse the therapist is required to report to the appropriate authorities immediately.
If a client is threatening serious bodily harm to another person, the therapist is required to notify the appropriate authorities to keep the other person safe.
If a client intends to harm her/himself, the therapist is required to report in order to keep the client safe.
If the therapist is subpoenaed to court.
What is Relational/Systemic Therapy?
Relational therapy takes into account your relationship with yourself, others, your culture, work, religion, and the society in which you live when looking at your challenges as well as looking for solutions. It’s holistic. Systemic therapy believes that we are all a part of systems. Those systems impact us and we impact them.
What is EMDR Therapy?
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Sometimes when you experience traumatic or difficult events they inspire a negative belief about yourself. For example, if you were neglected by a parent growing up, the negative belief about yourself might be “I am not enough,” or “I am not deserving of love.” Negative beliefs don’t just stay local to the event. Instead, they permeate multiple areas of your life and create challenges. I can help you reprocess the events, create new, positive beliefs, heal, get unstuck, move toward your relational or life goals, and craft the life you want.
What are your hours of operation?
*Current availabilities are only on Sunday 10am-6pm
Monday: 9am-5pm
Tuesday: 9am-3pm
Thursday: 9am-5pm
Friday: 9am-4pm
what are your service fees?
25-minute consultations - $75
50-minute session - $150
80-minute session - $210
*All intake sessions are 80 minutes in duration
Do you accept insurance?
I do not bill insurance providers because I seek to empower you, as my client, to be an active driver of your therapeutic experience. Insurance providers’ practices place them in control of your therapeutic process. Together, you and I will craft an experience that will be as helpful for you as possible, and I won’t allow anyone else to dictate what that looks like.
Good Faith Estimate
You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your medical care will cost. Under the law, healthcare providers need to give patients who don’t have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the bill for medical items and services.
You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency items or services. This includes related costs like medical tests, prescription drugs, equipment, and hospital fees.
Make sure your healthcare provider gives you a Good Faith Estimate in writing at least 1 business day before your medical service or item, provided that you scheduled your appointment at least 3 days prior. You can also ask your health care provider, and any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate at the time you are scheduling an item or service.
If you receive a bill that is significantly more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill.
Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate.
what is your cancellation policy?
Clients are required to notify that they are canceling the session either by phone or email at least 24 hours before the session. If less than 24 hours notice is given, the client will be charged the full session fee. If the client arrives more than 10 minutes late, the session will be canceled and the full session fee will be assessed.