Rates & Insurance
We understand that therapy is a financial commitment.
It’s also a place for you to experience healing that can change your life.
When you finally decide to come to therapy, you’re ready for relief, and we’re ready to help you find it.
We take a limited number of clients so that we’re able to maintain a healthy work/life balance and function optimally for each of our clients. We see our own therapists each week to maintain our personal growth so we can provide quality work. We dedicate time each day to reflect on our sessions and provide you with themes and patterns we’ve identified that will be helpful to you in reaching your goals.
We use a combination of two evidence-based modalities:
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, to help you get to the “root” of your issues and expedite the healing process. Our clients often report feeling an indescribable “aha” moment and experiencing great clarity early on in our work together.
These modalities can help you achieve relief faster than traditional talk therapy, yet most of our clients prefer to continue therapy to gain a deeper understanding of their internal worlds. A few ways that we’re able to help you see results are:
Providing educational resources to help you further understand our therapeutic approach so you know what to expect. This can help you feel more at ease throughout our work together, especially during the first few sessions, which can be especially nerve-racking!
Helping you identify objective and measurable goals at the onset of therapy.
Checking in with you regularly to ensure your needs are being met and that we’re getting to the root of the problem. We welcome open and honest communication. You’re investing time and money into this! We want you to get the most out of our work together.
Rates
phone consult:
15 mins
Starting at
Free
initial intake appointment: 50 Mins
Starting at
$250
standard individual sessioN: 53 MINS
Starting at
$220
Insurance
We do not participate with any insurance panels
When therapists accept insurance, they have legal contracts with insurance providers and must abide by the terms of the contract, which dictate clinical decisions, such as length of treatment, frequency/length of sessions, and mandated mental health diagnoses. Mental health diagnoses go on your permanent medical record and could negatively affect you in the future should you go through a divorce, a child custody battle, have a high-profile job, etc. Insurance companies dictate what care is available to you without knowing anything about you.
Therapists who accept insurance are often required to submit paperwork for each client and must spend time making a case about the necessity for continuing treatment for each client. Insurance companies require sensitive information about your mental health to be disclosed to their representatives (who aren’t therapists) so they can decide the necessity of your treatment. Not only does this impact the confidentiality of clients, but these requirements are time-consuming and unpaid.
Therapists have to negotiate reimbursement rates with insurance companies (aka their incomes). It’s in the best interest of insurance companies to reimburse therapists the lowest amount of money. This forces therapists to compensate for this disparity by seeing several clients, ultimately affecting their quality of care. If you’ve ever had a job that paid you unfairly and required you to work long hours (many of them unpaid), you probably didn’t feel motivated or valued.
Maintaining a healthy work/life balance is essential for anyone in a helping profession; you are not fit to help others if you are not helping yourself.
It was always April’s dream to build a practice that could provide the quality of care she wish she had received when she needed it the most. As she was preparing to open this practice, she reflected on her early experiences as an overworked, underpaid, and burnt-out therapist and how this affected her quality of work. She thought back to her experience as a client and how she could sense fatigue and indifference in her providers and how terrible that felt. She knew she wanted her clients to have a much different experience than she did.
Cutting ties with insurance companies in 2021 allowed this dream to come true. We can focus on providing the best care to all of our clients and keep your records completely secure and confidential. It has also allowed us to prioritize our own mental health and professional development to ensure we remain passionate about our work and fully committed to providing the best possible care. This helps our clients achieve their goals more quickly than working with therapists that are overworked and burnt out.
I really want to work with you, but therapy is out of my budget.
What are my options?
Use pre-tax dollars
Use a Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Spending Account (FSA) to pay for therapy if those funds are available.
Look to your employer (or your spouse’s)
Check if you have an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that will cover the bill for a set number of sessions.
Talk to your tax preparer
See if you’d be able to deduct therapy from your taxes as an out-of-pocket health expense.
Understand that therapy is an investment
Therapy is an investment in yourself and your relationships. Compare the financial cost to the possible long-term emotional costs.
Talk to your insurance company
A mental health diagnosis is required for reimbursement, however, if you aren’t concerned about a diagnosis on your permanent medical record and your insurance plan has out-of-network benefits, we can provide you with documentation for you to submit to insurance for reimbursement. We specifically hold 53-minute sessions (90837-95) so insurance will reimburse you the highest amount. Here are some helpful questions to ask:
What is my out-of-network deductible?
How much of my out-of-network deductible has been met?
What is my coinsurance?
What are the reimbursement rates for CPT codes 90791-95 and 90837-95?
How do I submit for reimbursement?
How long do I have to submit a Superbill?
It is your responsibility to call your insurance provider to inquire about out-of-network benefits. Reimbursement is not guaranteed and you are responsible for full payment at the time of services.
Payment
We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.
We also accept Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA). Please verify eligible expenses with your provider.
We participate in automatic billing and a credit or debit card is required to be kept on file as a convenient method of payment. Your card will be charged at the time of service. All payments are processed through Stripe, a secure payment processing platform that is integrated into SimplePractice, our practice management software.
Cancellation Policy
An appointment is a reservation for you and you only. We require a 24 hours notice for canceled or rescheduled appointments. If for any reason a session is canceled or rescheduled less than 24 hours prior, you will be charged the full fee to the card on file.
Any Other Questions
Please contact me for any additional questions you may have. I look forward to hearing from you!
Good Faith Estimate
You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your medical care will cost.
Under the law, healthcare 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 healthcare 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 your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises or call 800-985-3059.