Costs

Individual 50-minute session - $190

(I have limited sliding-scale openings available from time to time.)

Insurance

I am no longer accepting clients for in-network insurance payment. I realize this may limit access for some clients, and I lament having to make this decision for my practice.

I can facilitate out-of-network reimbursement by providing what’s called a “superbill” that you can submit to your insurance carrier. I can also submit that information directly to your insurance provider, at your discretion.

Areas of Focus

There are a few therapeutic areas of my practice that I get asked about a lot:

PTSD and Other Trauma – If something scary or awful happened to you, even a long time ago, and you are having a hard time moving past it, we can work to help you let go, heal, and move on. The approaches I use most for this kind of work are Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). A nice summary of EMDR from the VA is here and an excellent podcast episode about CPT is here.

Anxiety and Depression – I work at helping people develop near-term symptom management skills as well as long-term, fundamental change.

Interpersonal Reactivity and Passivity – Do you find that you escalate arguments and push back on others in ways that later feel over-aggressive? Or do you feel you appease and accommodate others in ways you later regret or resent? I approach these issues from an attachment perspective, as our earliest experiences of human bonding color how we connect to people (and who we connect with) later in life.  Changing these patterns is possible.

Substance Use – Substance use often goes hand in hand with all of the issues listed above. I work with people to reduce use and/or achieve abstinence, and work with those in recovery to strengthen their sobriety by addressing issues fundamental to their emotional well-being.

Career and Life Transitions – Given my own career changes, I want to help others find ways of getting more out of their time on this Earth.  Sometimes that means new job, sometimes it means some other type of change, maybe even just a change in perspective.

A Note About “Trauma”

“Trauma” has a very specific clinical definition that is often different from clients’ own definitions.  It’s a loaded word in our society.  Many people think of “trauma” or PTSD largely in terms of trauma experienced by military personnel or first responders, when in fact the range of experiences that can lead to PTSD or PTSD-like symptoms is very broad.  Clinically, trauma is defined more by the symptoms experienced than by the triggering event or events themselves. 

Why mention all this?  If something that was scary or extremely stressful *to you* is causing mental anguish that you can’t seem to get past, I encourage you to seek treatment, regardless of whether you consider the experience itself “traumatic.”  If it bothers you, it’s worth treating, and we can work on it.