Individual Therapy for relationships, anxiety, depression and phobias
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Insurance vs private pay
What to consider when deciding whether to chose private pay or use your health insurance?
Our private pay rate is $150 for a 50-min session and $200 for a 90-min session.
We accept the following insurances and EAPs for individual therapy:
Aetna
Carebridge EAP
Carelon Behavioral Health
Cigna and Evernorth
Government Employees Health Association (GEHA)
Lyra EAP
Meritain Health
Optum
Oscar Health
Oxford
Spring Health EAP
United Medical Resources (UMR)
UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
2. You have to have a diagnosis from the DSM-5 to establish “medical necessity” for the insurance to cover your therapy sessions (we didn’t make the rules!).
3. As insurance is paying for your services, your insurance company has the right to request the documentation related to your therapy including therapy notes, which restricts your confidentiality.
4. If you're in the military, you might choose not to use your insurance for therapy primarily due to concerns about confidentiality, as using military-provided mental health services can potentially be documented in your military record, which could impact your career, security clearance, or deployments, even though the information is supposed to be confidential; seeking therapy through civilian providers outside the military and selecting private pay can offer a higher level of privacy.
Compassion
“Shame corrodes that very part of us that believes we are capable of change” - Brené Brown.
Whatever you struggle with, let’s have compassion for your struggle, for that part of you that gets stressed, overwhelmed, scared or desperate. You are capable of change but change is much easier from the position of love than the position of judgement. Unconditional love for yourself is fertile ground for changing your life.
If something does not work, it is easy to get on yourself thinking that you’re not good enough. Instead, let’s take it as information, ask a question “why does it not work”? and come up with a better way!
The Magic Carpet of Therapy: how therapy works
To have what you don’t have, do what you don’t do!
In therapy, we:
look at your current habits and ways of thinking and feeling
explore the roots of them, as they might serve some function
evaluate whether they are helping or harming you
you decide on whether to keep them or change them.
You are always in control.
The more you put into therapy, the more you get out of it! Consistency with attending your sessions and practicing what we talk about in therapy between the sessions is the key to seeing a meaningful and desired changes quicker!
We use curiosity instead of judgement to allow you finding your own truth about yourself and accepting yourself while opening the door to invite the wind of change and hope into your life.
Mindfulness, choicefulness, trauma and acceptance and commitment therapy
Are you awake during the day? While most of people would immediately answer “Of course I am, what a silly question”, they often live their days on autopilot following old habits and repeating old patterns. Over and over again. Even if they are harmful. Only when you are mindful, you can make new choices. In therapy, you will improve:
your awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and coping strategies both helpful and unhelpful and how to change them
your ability to recognize when you are triggered and overcome trauma responses
your understanding of how you show up in relationships and how to improve your ability to connect with people
how to make new choices in life that form new habits and in turn lead to new outcomes
A new way of looking at things: cognitive-behavior therapy
Do you struggle with unhelpful beliefs such as “I’m not enough”, “I need to people-please or be perfect to be loved”, “People are not to be trusted”? Do you find yourself getting lost in the negative thinking spiral? Over our lifespan, we develop certain beliefs and attitudes. Some of them are obvious to us, some are outside of our awareness. Nonetheless, they guide our perceptions, decisions, and emotional responses. Good news is that we can intentionally change them! I use cognitive-behavior therapy, one of the most well-research and effective approaches to psychotherapy to help you rewrite your unhelpful believes and teach you to stop negative thinking!
A new way of feeling and experiencing yourself, others and the world
Some things cannot be understood/changed through the mind, we need to feel them and experience them though the heart. If you have never felt like you are enough the way you are, experiencing it will change your life.
Sitting with a therapist who cares and accepts you can be a profound experience on its own.
We use numerous modalities to help you FEEL differently and have a corrective emotional experience: guided imagery, interpersonal process, art therapy, and hypnosis.
Living in accordance with your values
When our choices and life circumstances don’t align with our values, we feel depleted, apathetic, and sad. Therapy is an excellent place to:
conduct an inventory of your values
examine when you act in accordance with your values and when you make choices inconsistent with them
how it affects your mood and anxiety
make new choices that will lead to a more meaningful, full and satisfying life.
Spirituality, religion and culture
Want to incorporate more spirituality into your life? Whether it is Christianity, Buddhism, Manifestation or an integrative approach, I’m here to help! A balanced person is one who has access to both the mind and the heart. Some things are impossible to comprehend or implement through the mind. Connecting to our heart/intuition/soul/inner child (there are so many names!) helps us to become whole and experience life in its entirety. I will not tell you what is right or wrong and will not assign you to read the scriptures. Instead, I will support your spiritual journey and search for meaning in a way that most aligns with your own values and needs to support your mental health.