Frequently Asked Questions

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Therapy (also called “psychotherapy”, “talk therapy”, or “counseling”) is the process of working through mental or emotional challenges within a supportive professional relationship. Doing this usually involves confronting unhelpful thought patterns, changing habits, and/or processing emotions.

If we agree to work together, our first session will be an intake interview for me to learn about your challenges and begin to develop a plan for therapy. This hour-long interview session costs $175.

My standard rate is $150 for one session, lasting 53-55 minutes.

These costs cover not only my face-to-face time with you, but also the out-of-session work I do to facilitate therapy, including record-keeping, scheduling, administration, and professional research.

More details are available in my Financial Policies document, which I send to prospective clients upon scheduling an intake interview.

I do not currently accept health insurance.

I am a member of the Open Path Psychotherapy Collective, an organization that serves clients in financial need seeking affordable mental health therapy. As such, I reserve a limited number of low-fee appointment slots in my caseload for clients who cannot afford my full rate.

Doing therapy over video calls is a form of “telehealth”, which allows a counselor to meet with clients who cannot or prefer not to come into a traditional office setting. It can be much more comfortable and convenient than in-person therapy.

However, telehealth also comes with drawbacks, including a lack of emotional immediacy and increased opportunities for distraction.

I find in-person work better suited to my skills and thus more productive, so I only offer telehealth as a secondary, occasional service for established clients. The bulk of our therapy will be done in-person.

As a general rule, I do not offer therapy over the phone, either voice call or text.

Therapy is a highly personal process. The length of our work together depends on many factors, including the nature of the issues we’re working on, your goals for therapy, and the ways you practice and apply therapy concepts outside of our appointments. Some clients see improvement within a few sessions; other clients will work for years to make steady, deep change.

When therapy begins, I will provide you with a good-faith estimate of how long our work together will last. This is by no means a guarantee, and we will revisit it throughout the counseling process.

I provide therapy to individual adult (18+) clients.

I do not provide therapy to minor clients, and I do not offer group, family, or relationship counseling.

No; my practice is not set up to provide wraparound care. I see most of my clients once every week or two weeks, and am not typically “on-call” between sessions. If that is something you are looking for in a therapist, you might benefit from a Dialectical Behavior Therapy program!

I do not have the professional qualifications to prescribe medicine, and don’t offer medication management. I suggest you work with your primary care physician or a psychiatrist for those services.