Psychotherapy sessions are typically scheduled once per week. Each individual session typically lasts about 50 minutes. My preference for each couples session is typically about 75 minutes. Frequency and duration can be adjusted as needed, but consistency is key for therapy to be effective.

Change is an ongoing process and takes time. Progress in psychotherapy requires engagement, consistency, and patience. You set the pace and determine when you’re ready to end therapy.

• My private pay, out-of-pocket fee is $200 per 50-minute session and $250 per 75-minute session. 
• Payment is due at the end of each session via credit card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, or Health Savings Account). 
• I am an in-network provider with Aetna, Cigna, and Optum. If you would like to use your insurance benefits to cover the cost of therapy, we will complete an eligibility check prior to starting therapy to verify your coverage and payment responsibility (co-payment or co-insurance).

I maintain a 24-hour cancellation policy. When unable to attend a scheduled session, please provide 24 hours advance notice. Cancelling within 24 hours of your appointment time, or in the event of a “no show”, the full session fee will be charged. Emergencies will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Yes. Privacy and confidentiality are fundamental to effective psychotherapy. Psychotherapists cannot release confidential information without first obtaining a client’s written consent. However, psychotherapists are mandated reporters, meaning that there are state laws and professional ethics codes that require and permit psychotherapists to break confidentiality under certain circumstances.

1. Psychotherapists must break confidentiality in cases of child, elder, or dependent adult abuse and/or neglect. 
2. Psychotherapists must break confidentiality when there is a suspicion that a client may be a danger to another person(s) or property.
3. Psychotherapists may break confidentiality when there is a suspicion that a client may be a danger to self. In such cases, psychotherapists make every effort to cooperate with their clients to ensure his/her/their safety. If a client is not willing or is unable to cooperate, psychotherapists take action(s) lawfully permitted to them to ensure client safety.

Grief is a process for which there is no timeline or end date. Imagine how waves form and move… grief is like that. The pain of loss will not always feel as raw as it does at first. It comes and goes, sometimes seemingly out of nowhere, sometimes like a tidal wave, others like a ripple. Allow yourself to feel and express your pain, remember moments of joy and laughter, seek support, and trust that the messiness and distress is part of the healing process. 

The term “perinatal” includes pregnancy and the first year postpartum. Most birthing parents experience “the baby blues”, often experienced as mood swings for the first 2-3 weeks after giving birth. The baby blues are a normal response to the physical and emotional adjustment from pregnancy to postpartum and resolve without medical intervention. Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders are more severe and birthing parents, and their partners, can experience any or all of the following symptoms:

• Sadness and/or depression
• More irritable or angry with those around you
• Experiencing difficulty bonding with your baby
• Feeling anxious or panicky
• Problems eating or sleeping (not due to a wakeful newborn)
• Persistent, intrusive negative thoughts 
• Feeling “out of control” or as though you’re “going crazy”
• Feeling like you shouldn’t have become a parent
• Worried that you might harm your baby or yourself

1 in 7 birthing parents and 1 in 10 partners suffer from postpartum depression (https://www.postpartum.net/). You are not alone. It is not your fault. Support is available and you can recover.