Yes.

Phone Consultation, 15 min      Free

Intake Session, 60 min      $215

Regular Session, 50 min        $170

No, I don’t accept payment directly from insurance companies.

I’m an out-of-network provider, which means you pay for sessions yourself then submit the receipts, called “superbills”, to your insurance company. If you have out-of-network benefits, your insurance company will send you a check reimbursing you for a portion of the cost of care, usually between 30-70% after you’ve met your out-of-network deductible.

To check if you have out-of-network benefits and find out what they are, use the free benefit checking tool. It takes about 1 minute.

Sessions are in person, except in cases of inclement weather, illness, in-state travel, or occasional extenuating circumstances.

If it is too rainy/icy to travel or either of us is experiencing any symptoms of cold/flu/Covid-19, we will meet virtually through a HIPAA-compliant Zoom link.

Telehealth is a great tool to help us keep consistency these instances, but generally speaking, I don’t offer all-virtual therapy, so plan to come regularly in person.

Therapy is most effective when attended weekly, so that’s what I do.

Weekly therapy gives clients a chance to have a real test of what they’re capable of when they lock in, focus, and persist. It makes it less possible for people to continue avoiding or circumnavigating what they’re really feeling and really needing. This avoidance is a common reason people seek therapy in the first place and a common reason biweekly therapy often doesn’t move the needle.

I don’t want my clients to feel stuck—I want to help you get to where you want to go as soon as possible.

Weekly consistency can make the difference between:

• Half-baked ideas with half-hearted implementation

• Feeling stuck

• Eventually stalling out and feeling like we’ve both failed at making change

• Feeling that you’ve (at least somewhat) wasted your time and money

and:

• Finally confronting truths within you that, when given space every week in our sessions, become so loud you can’t ignore them anymore

• Making life-changing shifts in how you think, act, and relate to yourself and others

• Feeling momentum, mounting satisfaction, and a greater sense of agency and efficacy in your life

• Ending therapy in 3-12 months with a celebratory goodbye

With all that being said: After an initial period of weekly meetings, I do on rare occasion suggest biweekly meeting frequency in cases when it’s truly clinically appropriate and will be effective. It happens, but it’s not the norm.

I’m available for appointments Monday-Thursday from 10:30am-3:00pm.

Before scheduling an appointment, we'll start by scheduling a free 15-minute phone consultation so we can see if we’re a good fit and I can answer any questions you may have.

If you decide to begin therapy with me, the first appointment will last 60 minutes. I’ll send you an invitation to create a Client Portal account and fill out intake paperwork, which needs to be completed 24 hours before your first appointment.

Future appointments will be 50 minutes long. As we meet over the first several sessions, we’ll get to know one another and I’ll be able to better assess your needs and goals. Then, we’ll work together to map out a treatment plan and dive in. Each week you will have things to observe, reflect on, practice, or change in your daily life between sessions.

You decide when to start therapy and when to finish. You’re always free to end whenever you choose. As long as we’re working together, I almost always recommend sticking to weekly sessions because this consistency and persistence keeps the work effective—and usually gets you out of therapy sooner in the end.

Length of treatment will vary based on your needs. Committing to weekly meetings helps make sure it won’t take forever, but I can’t give an accurate estimate of total treatment time until we’ve met a few times and I have an understanding of your specific needs and goals.

Rest assured: My goal is to help you get where you want to go and then say a celebratory goodbye, not to keep you here for years. There’s never pressure to continue, and in fact if what we are doing together isn’t working, I will probably be the first one to suggest a change, whether in approach or provider.

Appointments are commitments. Once we agree on a regular time to meet, I ask that you keep that commitment.

If you have a scheduling conflict with your regular time and must move it, please provide 24 hours notice. As scheduling conflicts arise, appointments will be rescheduled, not cancelled, whenever scheduling allows. This policy ensures the consistency required for therapy to be effective and respects both our time.

On occasion, it is genuinely impractical to reschedule and we will simply cancel. However, at least 24 hours notice generally provides enough time for us to work together to find another convenient time to meet during the week, or possibly the week before or after your originally scheduled appointment.

I will also inform you in advance of my planned absences, and we will reschedule your appointment whenever possible.

If less than 24 hours’ notice is given, you are responsible for the session, except in case of a true emergency (such as serious injury, medical emergency, or accident).

Sick Policy: If you are experiencing even mild symptoms of cold, flu, or Covid-19, I require that we meet via telehealth. Just send me a message, and I’ll provide a meeting link.

It’s important to keep the commitment to weekly therapy, even when it isn’t easy. In my experience, the most common reasons people cancel therapy are:

1. Simple, straight-forward scheduling conflict

2. Feeling “too busy” or “too stressed”

3. Something came up in the therapeutic relationship or therapeutic content

My take on each:

1. Ok, we can probably find a different time, so let’s do that to keep consistency and momentum.

2. When life gets busy and stressful and something has to give, it’s tempting to make it therapy. That’s not going to be helpful. If therapy is the place where you’re getting real about what’s working and not working in your life and making your own needs the object of your attention for an hour, what you’d really be putting in last place as soon as things get hard is you. Therapy can’t work for you when it’s put last, and my approach to cancellations acknowledges that reality.

3. If we reach a point when something difficult comes up in session and you’re feeling like you’d rather cancel than address the issue, I ask that you come to session so we can talk about it together. Avoiding the session will only prolong the problem and your discomfort. If you feel frustrated, dissatisfied, or have the urge to avoid therapy, I will not take it personally. I warmly welcome you to share any concerns about me or your progress in therapy as we work together. My goal is to help all my clients improve their emotional awareness and expression and find resolutions that meet their needs. I am no less happy to help with that when the concern is that you’re feeling mad at, hurt by, or irritated with me. We aim to find new ways of doing things, not to continue patterns of hurt that play out elsewhere in your life and cause suffering. My policy of rescheduling cancellations creates a built-in buffer against this temptation to avoid.

If it’s an issue of financial sustainability, it’s best to start with a therapist you know you can afford on a more regular basis. Open Path Collective helps connect clients with therapists who are able to provide services at a cost of $30-$70 per session.

If it’s a scheduling issue or avoidance issue, know that you can only get out of therapy what you put into it. I want to set my clients up for success from the beginning, so I don’t offer biweekly therapy purely to accommodate scheduling preference or commitment level preference. Instead, I ask you to choose something else in your schedule to be flexible with or increase your level of commitment.

There is a free main parking lot right outside the building. It has 3 disability parking spaces located close to the building entrance.

If the lot is ever full for any reason, there is additional free parking:

• Public garage located at the far end of the main lot next to the Hampton Inn

• Public lot located behind the building at the intersection of E Main St and Roberson St

The door to my office building is right between Oakleaf restaurant and Fleet Feet shoe store. It is labeled 301 overhead. There are no steps to enter the lobby. From the lobby, there are both stairs and an elevator to the third floor. My office is in Suite 375. If you’re coming off the elevator, take a left down the hallway and you’ll find it on the left hand side.

The office building only has binary gendered restrooms. There are gender-neutral restrooms available in Gray Squirrel cafe located on the other side of the parking lot.

I partner with Mentaya, a platform that makes the process of using your out-of-network benefits automatic and hands-off. In exchange for handling the claims submission process for you, Mentaya charges a fee of 5% of the claim amount (5% of $160 = $8 fee per claim). You create an account and enter your insurance information, and you will receive the reimbursement you are owed directly from your insurance company as it processes each claim.

You don’t have to use Mentaya to get reimbursed. You can submit the claims yourself for free. Using Mentaya’s service is 100% optional, and as a therapist I don’t benefit in any way from your participation if you choose to use it.

Other ways to save on the cost of therapy include using a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA), since your income that funds these accounts is not subject to state or federal income tax. Some employers also reimburse employees for the cost of therapy up to a pre-determined benefit amount. Check with your workplace to see if any of these benefits are available.