FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

INSURANCE

What is accepted?
  1. I accept a number of different insurances at present, all listed here. However, as you’re considering whether or not to utilize insurance for your services, you should know a few things about that. When you use insurance, you are entering into an agreement that allows your insurance company to access the notes written for each of your sessions, limit the number of sessions you are able to receive, and/or require a diagnosis to be given to you.
How much will I pay?
  1. When you use insurance, the amount you pay is no longer dictated by me or my set prices, but rather a contract rate (or portion of) that the insurance company has decided is a fair rate for the services you’re receiving. This means that you may pay more than the low end of my sliding scale depending on the coverage of your plan. To determine how much you will pay for each session, the most direct way is contacting your insurance company and inquiring about your outpatient behavioral health or outpatient mental health coverage.
Why can’t I use insurance for relational therapy?
  1. While I do accept insurance for individuals because I can practice in a way that aligns with the requirements insurance places on therapy services in that regard, I cannot accept insurance for relational work (couples/polycules). The reason behind this is again that insurance requires a diagnosis in order to treat, but there are no codes for relationship units or diagnoses for relationships that work within that framework. Additionally, I conduct only 80-minute sessions for relationship work and do not have an avenue of charging for an 80-minute duration through insurance. For these reasons, I can only accept the private pay option for relational therapy.

HOW LONG ARE SESSIONS?

  1. My individual sessions are all approximately 55-minutes; give or take a couple depending on wrap up. This gives us time to deeply explore and reflect on the problems you’re having in a way that you feel heard and understood and explore potential next steps to support your path of growth and change.
  2. My relational sessions are all set at 80 minutes. With more voices in the space, it takes a little longer to get through things; I have found that providing ample time for the work to be done is more helpful than trying to cram things into a 60-minute window.

What should I expect getting started in therapy?

  1. I try to set things up with most people coming in through a three step process: intake, goals, and deep-dives.  Intake serves as a thorough look at your life, both what’s going on internally and what’s happening in your external life, environment, and relationships as well; we will cover topics from your childhood milestones to your career and everything in between.  Next, we’ll tackle goals and I’ll support you in creating a very clear picture of “The End of Therapy” so we know what needs to happen and what you hope it will look like to have outgrown your need for therapy.  This will serve as our direction driver throughout the process, but leave space for other things that come up along the way.  And finally, we will dive deep into the goals you create for therapy and begin the work of getting from where you are to where you want to go.

HOW LONG WILL I BE IN THERAPY?

  1. This is the most difficult question for me to answer because it’s so dependent on each person and the things they want to work on. What I can say is this: in general, most people start experiencing relief and/or change in the first 10-12 sessions. Beyond that, I think the more important thing to keep in mind is that you will get out of the experience what you put into it. If you have been struggling with something for 10, 20, 30+ years, it may take several months to years to work through things.

AM I "TOO MESSED UP," "TOO BROKEN," "TOO OLD," ETC. FOR THIS KIND OF THERAPY?

  1. No. Absolutely not. There is no such thing. You deserve happiness, joy, and pleasure in your life. We all have a relationship with sex, gender, and sexuality—let’s have those relationships be as wonderful as they can at any stage of our life!

WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT YOU USE AI IN THERAPY?

  1. I do utilize an assistive AI tool in the background of my therapy practice. It follows the laws of HIPAA to ensure that privacy and information stay secure and do not get used for AI training. It runs in the background during sessions to help me stay on top of notes required for insurance so that I can spend more time focused on my clients’ needs.