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Your emotional health matters

Committing to therapy is an investment in your mental health and healing journey.

Private pay

All therapy sessions are $140.

Payment is due at time of service.

For New Clients:

• Initial session (diagnostic assessment) is 55-60 minutes long.

For Current clients:

• Therapy sessions are 45 minutes long.

Payment

• Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express.

• Cash, ApplePay, Venmo.

• HSA and FSA cards are also accepted.

Insurance

As a private practice provider, I do NOT accept insurance.

However, my services are insurance eligible for reimbursement.

Check with your insurance plan to see if you have out-of-network benefits. I can provide you with a bill if you wish to submit directly to your insurance plan for reimbursement.

Why don't you take insurance?

There are many reasons why therapists with advanced training and expertise choose to accept private pay and choose not to submit to health insurance, including:

• No required diagnosis: this reduces over-diagnosing and prevents any stigmatized labels from being entered into your permanent electronic health record.

• No ethical or moral dilemma: only “F codes” are reimbursed by insurance agencies. For example, bereavement (loss of a loved one) is not an F code. Therefore, in order for the client to receive services and be reimbursed, the clinician would have to diagnose either an inaccurate or more severe diagnosis that the client may not actually meet the criteria for in order to obtain services. Otherwise, the client will be denied care.

• Client control: Frequency and form of treatment are decided by both client and therapist instead of having imposed limitations placed by the third party. Insurance agencies often dictate which types of treatments are accepted in addition to how often a client can be seen.

• More privacy and confidentiality of services: The insurance agency will have access to records and client’s private health information. This includes diagnoses, treatment goals/modalities, progress notes of what was discussed during session, and payment information.

Cancellation fees

Your time is valuable as well as mine.

If you need to cancel an appointment, please call or text at least 1 business day before your scheduled appointment, during business hours (Monday - Friday, 8am-5pm).

If your appointment is on a Monday, you need to cancel the Friday before.

I charge a cancellation fee of $40 (due at your next appointment) if cancellation occurs less than 1 business day before your scheduled appointment.

Questions

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding private pay, insurance, or cancellations.