fees & info

Insurance:

I am in network for Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, HealthPartners, and Optum. I am out of network for all other insurance companies and will gladly provide you documentation, called a superbill, so you can submit for reimbursement. Missed appointment fees apply for those using insurance. 

Private Pay - Fees for services provided:

Paying for therapy out of pocket and skipping insurance altogether has some advantages. Some people prefer the privacy it offers, as your information will not be available to insurance companies. 

The below fees are standard for therapy services. If you are financially secure I ask that you pay the full fee. If the full fee prohibits you from accessing services, contact me to see if I have room in my caseload to offer my sliding fee scale. You know your financial needs best, and we can talk about what works based on your individual situation. I can offer up to 10 sessions at a sliding scale rate.

Initial consultation (15-20 min): free (via video chat or by phone)

Intake session (55 min): $225

Individual session (55 min): $195  -  (80 min): $225

Clinical supervision (55 min): $140

Late cancel: $75 (also applies to those using insurance)

No show: $150 (also applies to those using insurance)

Missed Appointment Policy:

If you fail to cancel an appointment with less than 24 hours notice on business days (Tuesday-Friday), or before weekend or holiday (please cancel a Monday appointment by the Friday before), you are responsible for an out-of-pocket fee unless you are able to reschedule the same week based on my availability. Actual emergencies are excluded from this policy. I am also flexible with sudden-onset illness. This cancellation policy is standard practice for the field and allows me to offer the timeslot to another person if you are unable to make your appointment. Once in a while, I also may have to cancel our appointment due to unforeseen circumstances; I am aware that "life happens," and also believe that keeping commitments and schedules is really important when possible.

Somatic Experiencing® & Internal Family Systems

Somatic Experiencing® is the type of somatic therapy I am trained in. Though there are a few different types of somatic therapy, they all have a core principle of supporting the nervous system to cope with stress and trauma using what is called a "bottom-up approach." This term refers to the structure of the brain and a focus on working with symptoms and reactions that originate in the brain stem and support basic survival mechanisms. This is quite different from many other types of therapy that focus on the logical, thinking parts of the brain. Researchers and traumatologists have learned that we cannot think our way out of stress reactions, we must sense and feel our way through them to have shifts in experience. Read more about SE™ here.

Internal Family Systems is a therapy approach centering the idea that we all are made of various parts - a multiplicity - because we are all complex and from an early age learn very creative ways of coping with life's stressors. Our inner worlds are made up of various parts that often take over and work very hard at managing our lives, which can sometimes be confusing and conflictual. We have all felt like "part of me wants to quit this job today, and part of me wants to keep trying to see if it gets better," or, "part of me wants to leave this relationship, but part of me thinks there's something worth saving here." Through compassionate exploration of our parts, we can ask them to work together and even calm a bit so that our more essential Self can be the leader of our lives. IFS is centered on the belief that every person is whole and capable of healing. 

While I have been a psychotherapist since 2009, SE™ and IFS that have completely transformed the way I do work in recent years. My clients report greater emotional and behavioral flexibility, more hope and change, and improvement in functioning in all areas of their life as a result of these types of therapy. I also have personally experienced great transformations in my own life as a result of the personal work I've done with SE™ and IFS therapists of my own.