Fees & Insurance

Invest in yourself, your relationships and your future.

Your potential for healing, growth and connection is priceless.

You are worth it.

Therapy is an investment of time, energy, and money.

My fee is $155 for individuals per 50 min session. Sessions can occur weekly or every 2 weeks depending on your needs and goals. I offer sliding scale spots (they are full at this time).

For those who have hectic busy schedules and the thought of meeting weekly seems not do-able, I offer extended sessions and intensives so you can go longer in between and meet less often.

Cancelation policy: You will be charged the full fee for canceled or rescheduled sessions with less than 48 hours’ notice. In the event of an unavoidable conflict or emergency we may be able to make other arrangement to avoid the cancelation fee.

Investment (noun):

An investment is an asset or item acquired to generate income or gain appreciation. Appreciation is the increase in the value of an asset over time.

I reserve your appointment time just for you. By carefully limiting the number of clients I choose to work with at any given time, it allows me to serve you best.

I frimly believe that it is important that I practice what I teach my clients. I take your investment seriously and do quite a bit of behind the scenes work outside of our therapy and life coaching sessions so I may serve you better, including reading, learning, attending advanced trainings, gathering resources and preparing for our time together.

When you enter therapy with me, I commit to you.
I am asking you to be equally invested.

Important note: I do not take insurance for therapy sessions and life coaching sessions are not covered by insurance companies.

Part of my mission is to make therapy less pathologizing. Since my services are self-pay, I do not diagnose. I see you as the human being that you are, where you are -whether you've had some painful stuff happen in the past or life is happening right now.

I chose to work with individuals (you), not for insurance companies. I believe that the most effective care includes tailoring each treatment plan to meet the unique needs of the individual - not meet the rigid guidelines of the insurance company.

As such, I am not paneled with any insurance carriers and considered an out -of-network provider. However, If your insurance covers ‘out-of-network providers’ (typically PPO insurance plans) they may reimburse you for part of my fee, you may contact them to determine what the reimbursement rates on your plan are.

Please be sure to inform them that services will take place via Telehealth or In-person. When submitting information to an insurance company, the insurance company - not you - decides how many sessions are appropriate for your treatment and the length of those sessions.

While it may feel validating to recieve a diagnosis, it does not have anything to do with the root cause - a dysregulated nervous system.

It's also important for you to know that private information shared with your insurance company may be stored in the Medical Information Bureau where it can be accessed in the future by other parties such as life insurance companies or government jobs. This is another reason why I do not work with insurance, I want to protect your privacy and keep your freedom.

Diagnoses are a snapshot in time and are usually situational. They're a way to help professionals communicate with one another and used for insurance purposes. They are not trauma-informed, context-driven, nor nervous system based. It is objective and that is why you can go to do 5 different providers and have 5 different diagnoses.

I am happy to provide you with proof of service (Superbill) so you may recover some of your costs. Keep in mind, that I will need to provide a diagnosis if you are choosing to utilize your OON benefits. Also, there are many reasons an insurance company may not reimburse for sessions that you have paid for. This may be because you do not have a diagnosis, or the diagnosis you do have is not covered. It may also be because they do not reimburse for out of network providers, or for telehealth.

Reimbursement should be viewed as a bonus, not a financial necessity in order to participate in therapy.

More and more, insurance companies are encouraging brief forms and courses of therapy, and disincentivizing longer sessions, which is often why I have clients come to me saying “I know why I’m broken, I've been in weekly therapy before but I've hit a plateau with my last therapist. I don’t know what to do differently or how to move forward.”

I believe in forms of therapy that are geared towards you as a unique individual, and helping you to go deeper than some of the forms of therapy insurance companies are willing to pay for. Intensive therapy specifically is an amazing support for many people to feel better, faster, but is not covered by most insurance companies (they may reimburse portions of an Intensive, but not in full).

Here's the good news about reimbursement.

Many employers in pharmaceutical, tech, financial services, energy, biotech and other industries have PPO plans that reimburse at surprisingly high rates (e.g. 60-80% of session costs) once members hit their deductible, even for out-of-network therapists like me. This is a great perk — from which I benefited when I worked in corporate life — and I love pursuing payment for clients.

I'm happy to discuss this further if you'd like in our initial consultation. These reimbursements can be a substantial benefit for many clients and might be available for you, too.

I accept debit, credit, and HSA/FSA.

Please check with your individual HSA/FSA plan around coverage for services and any potential gaps for eligibility.

Please speak with your insurance provider about your out-of-network benefits prior to scheduling an appointment. See the FAQs section for some suggested guidance.

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Good Faith Estimate

Under Section 2799B-6 of the Public Health Service Act, health care providers and health care facilities are required to inform individuals who are not enrolled in a plan or coverage or a Federal health care program, or not seeking to file a claim with their plan or coverage both orally and in writing of their ability, upon request or at the time of scheduling health care items and services, to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” of expected charges.

You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your medical care will cost. Under the law, health care providers need to give patients who don’t have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the bill for medical items and services.

You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency items or services. This includes related costs like medical tests, prescription drugs, equipment, and hospital fees. Make sure your health care provider gives you a Good Faith Estimate in writing at least 1 business day before your medical service or item. You can also ask your health care provider, and any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule an item or service.

If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill. Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate. For questions or more information about the Good Faith Estimate program you can contact www.cms.gov/nosurprises.