Current rates are $175 per therapeutic hour (typically 50-55 minutes). I offer a few sliding scale sessions per week at a rate of $100 per session.

I do not take health insurance for a few reasons. Health insurance companies require both a psychiatric diagnosis and continued documentation regarding your diagnosis, symptoms, behaviors, and treatment. This information is accessible to health insurance companies at any time. Although these companies are required to follow the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), there have been instances where health insurance information has been hacked (i.e., the Change Healthcare hack in 2024). Avoiding health insurance companies allows me to ensure that your health information is secure.

Additionally, health insurance companies typically attempt to dictate the course of treatment, limiting sessions, determining which modalities should or should not be used, and expecting consistent and linear progress from clients. This just isn’t how therapy works. Therapy is not linear. People have bad days. And there are treatment modalities that health insurance would prefer not to cover that are effective and evidence-based, such as Internal Family Systems. By avoiding insurance, I have the freedom to provide treatment that is in your best interest, and not the interest of a health insurance company.

Yes. Telehealth offers advantages for neurodivergent clients, including being able to log in from their safe space, having access to fidgets, pets, food and drink that may comfort them, and avoiding things like traffic and parking that can tax their nervous system. And, I get to meet everyone’s pets!

No, a formal ND diagnosis is not required. If you struggle to fit into the neurotypical world, you're in the right place. If you want a formal diagnosis, I can provide referrals for neuropsychological testing at any time.

Honestly? It's kinda weird. But, it’s effective. EMDR has several phases, which create a structured, formal intervention that creates safety before reprocessing traumatic memories. EMDR can sometimes feel like a meditation... and can also sometimes leave you feeling the weight of difficult memories more than you may have expected. My approach to EMDR is client-focused. I do everything I can to help my clients understand the process, why we do what we do, and to provide safety to mitigate the difficult, and often painful, experience of healing from trauma. EMDR can be lifechanging, but it can also be difficult. But, most clients feel that the rewards of living a life without the negative beliefs created by trauma are worth it.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is genuinely different for everyone, and I tailor these interventions to the individual client. For some of my clients, it's just a few brief questions that allow us to get past a mental block. For other clients, it is a rich and informative way of understanding themselves. For people who are already self-aware, that is saying something. IFS integrated with EMDR is effective for complex trauma (and for less complex trauma). These two modalities create a structure to identify the source of trauma symptoms, work through mental blocks that prevent healing, and move through what previously felt immovable.

That is tough to answer because every session is a little different. My work is tailored to the client. For some people, this means that we do a lot of psycheducation where I teach you how the brain works, how trauma impacts the brain, and why certain coping mechanisms are helpful and others aren’t. For others, the first session is a space for clients to practice being themselves without a mask. Sometimes we discuss what does work for you, and then explore what doesn’t. The first session doesn’t have a template. It is simply a place where we can decide what we are going to do, how we will do it, and help you to feel as comfortable as you can with the process.

Typically sessions are 50-55 minutes long and are scheduled to start at the beginning of the hour. Therapy sessions are just shy of a full hour for a few reasons; 1) we are legally and ethically required to document the session, which takes time, and 2) we are human, and we need a few minutes to transition between clients. It is extremely important to me that I am punctual. I have experienced the anxiety of not knowing when my therapist will show up and how long the session will actually be, and I strive to avoid my clients ever feeling that awful feeling. In order to have my sessions start on time, they also have to end on time.

Therapy can technically be done at any pace, but in my experience, weekly sessions are the most effective. Biweekly sessions are acceptable, especially if cost is a factor. But meeting every two weeks means the brain has less opportunity to consolidate and build on what was discussed. Biweekly sessions tend to result in therapy lasting much longer than necessary. Weekly sessions allow adequate time for the brain to synthesize the work that we did, while also having a period of rest. It is rare that I offer sessions more frequently than once per week, as that can result in clients becoming dependent on the therapist to regulate emotions. And the goal of therapy is to graduate and be able to live life without the support of a therapist. So, in my opinion, weekly sessions are the most effective cadence for our work.

Therapist fit is considered the most important aspect of effective therapy, so it is very important that you find the right therapist for you. Ask yourself, how did you feel reading this FAQ? How do you feel in general after reading about my work? If you're feeling good about working with me, then reach out and schedule a free 15-minute consultation call. You can ask me questions and get to know a bit more about my work before you decide to book a session. 

Once therapy has started people often believe that they can't leave the therapist or that they shouldn't. The fact is, if I am not the right therapist for you, then you should be given the opportunity to find a new one. If at any point you want to work with someone else, just let me know and I will help you find someone. I periodically check with my clients throughout the course of therapy to make sure that this still feels like the right fit. This isn't because I am insecure. It's because I want to ensure that you get the right person who has the right skills to help you feel calm and peaceful in your life.