Fees & Payment
The fee for a standard 50-minute therapy session is $200.
I currently accept payment via cash, check, or credit card. For your convenience, credit cards will be kept on file to secure your scheduled appointments and will be automatically processed following session. Credit cards are processed through a HIPAA-compliant platform.
I also have limited availability to work with clients who need to be seen on a sliding scale. Please email me directly to inquire for more details.
If you are considering working with me, but you want to chat first to see if it's a good fit, I offer brief (15 minute) consultations via email, phone, or video.
Insurance
Out of Network
While I may not be on your health insurance plan, many plans offer reimbursement for out-of-network mental healthcare services, including therapy. I recommend contacting your insurance company and finding out if you are able to collect reimbursement for therapy services received from an out-of-network provider. If reimbursement is offered, I am happy to work with you on providing documentation to your insurance company of our completed sessions. Payment for sessions is due at the time of service.
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The brief answer to this question is that I don’t work with insurance companies in order to maintain a person-centered, flexibly-paced, individualized approach to therapeutic care. I don’t believe any insurance company should have a say in what treatment will work best for you, or dictate exactly how long your relationship with a therapist should last.
The longer answer includes some of the following reasons:
- Out of pocket costs and deductibles are rising for patients, while reimbursement rates for providers are going down. Insurance companies continue to make billions in profits, but have gone decades without providing even basic cost-of-living or inflation-based increases in payment rates to mental health providers.
-The complex system of insurance is designed to prevent paying out for healthcare claims, regardless of necessity or severity. Insurance companies require hours of administrative time to submit and then follow up on basic claims, while regularly denying legitimate claims or losing claims altogether.
-Insurance companies dictate treatment, how long sessions are allowed to be (53 minutes is fine, 54 minutes is not), and how frequently you can attend therapy.
-Insurance companies require an official, documented diagnosis in order to cover treatment. While you may meet criteria for a diagnosis, I don’t believe one should be required in order for you to receive help. Claims without a DSM diagnosis are rejected outright.
-Insurance companies demand that the private information you share with me be shared with them, whenever they request it, in as much detail as they demand. If a provider refuses, they can clawback every payment they’ve ever made for your therapy.
-Insurance companies always receive their premiums on time, yet rarely make any effort to pay providers in a reasonable amount of time (if they even approve a claim, and then they still may not pay the agreed-upon amount).
-Insurance companies are increasingly partnering with venture-capitalist based therapy platforms (Alma, Headway, Betterhelp, etc) and offering lower rates to individual private practice therapists, slowly but effectively putting small practices out of business.
I love my work, I value my clients and our work together should be the most important factor in the room. Neither you or your therapist should be worried about an insurance company - an absent third party who cares only about profits, and not about your health or well-being - interfering in or dictating the course of your time in therapy.
I do provide superbills, which is an itemized statement that you can submit to your insurance company for potential reimbursement (a ‘bill’ is what I give to you for services, a ‘superbill’ is a special copy of a bill given to the insurance company, indicated that you’ve already paid the original bill to me, your provider).
Please note that in order to submit superbills, they must include a diagnosis.
Forms
For the most current version of intake & consent paperwork, please contact me directly
Worksheets & Tools
Anxiety Worksheet
Anxiety WOrksheet
This worksheet is a great way to start identifying what may trigger your anxiety and how you currently cope with it. Bringing this to our first sessions gives us a place to start our discussion.
Stress Management
Introduction to Stress management worksheet
This worksheet is a useful first step in helping you understand how stress affects you and where it may be coming from. We can work on this together in session.
Mindfulness & meditation
Introduction to Mindfulness & Meditation
This is an informative introduction to some of the primary principles of practicing mindfulness & meditation. Please let me know if this is of interest to you, and we can incorporate it into our time together.