Services and Fees
While I believe people are more than their collective symptoms or diagnoses, individuals often ask “what mental health problems can you help me with?”
My clinical experience has historically been focused on helping individuals with trauma recovery and the commonly co-occurring issues such as: anxiety, depression, grief, relationship problems and addiction.
Individual, Couple, & Family Therapy
Below you will find some commonly asked questions about your therapist and his answers which follow.
I view therapy as a relationship before I view it as a technique. Our conversations may involve speaking, listening, reasoning, questioning, empathizing, reacting, and sometimes challenging one another. You bring expertise in your own life; I bring training, experience, and an outside perspective.
My role is not to tell you who you should be or to write your story for you. I’ll work to understand how you experince your life and relationships, while also offering honest and compassionate feedback about patterns I notice along the way. You remain the lead author of your experiences.
I believe people—not techniques—are often among the most powerful forces in both our hurting and our healing. Relationships can wound us profoundly, and healthy relationships can also become places where we learn safety, trust, honesty, boundaries, and connection.
I have committed my work to helping people build and recognize the kinds of relationships in which healing can occur. Part of that work involves recognizing relationships and patterns that continue to hurt, while strengthening the ones that allow you to heal and grow. Mental health does not exist separately from the people and relationships that make up our lives.
No. You do not need to arrive with a perfectly defined problem, diagnosis, or treatment goal. Sometimes people know exactly what they want help with. Other times they simply know that something in their life, relationships, or way of experiencing themselves isn’t working anymore.
We can begin there.
All three. Many people initially reach out for individual therapy, but sometimes the difficulties bringing someone to therapy exist partly within a relationship or family systems. When appropriate, we may discuss whether involving a partner or family member could be useful. That decision is made intentionally—not because every probelm needs to become couples or family therapy, but because sometimes the most meaningful change happens when the relationship itself has an opportunity to change.
I’m relational and systemic in the way I think about people. I pay attention not only to the symptoms, but also to relationships, patterns, context, meaning, and the ways people respond to one another. I draw from different therapeutic approaches rather than expecting every person to fit neatly into a single model.
Therapy should serve the person in front of me—not require the person to conform to the therapy.
All three. Many people initially reach out for individual therapy, but sometimes the difficulties bringing someone to therapy exist partly within a relationship or family system.
When appropriate, we may discuss whether involving a partner or family member could be useful. That decision is made intentionally—not because every problem needs to become couples or family therapy, but because sometimes the most meaningful change happens when the relationship itself has an opportunity to change.
All sessions are $150 and are 45 minutes in length.
Clinical Forms
Clinical documentation is considered for established clients when I have sufficient clinical information to appropriately support the request. Completion of any form or documentation is subject to my professional judgment and cannot be guaranteed in advance.
In some circumstances, yes. Established clients may need clinical documentation related to medical leave, workplace accommodations, treatment schedules, or other needs. Whether I can appropriately complete a particular form depends on what the form asks me to certify, the nature and duration of our clinical relationship, and whether I have sufficient information to support what I am being asked to document.
I do not certify, register, or independently evaluate animals as emotional support animals. For established clients, I may provide documentation supporting a request for a reasonable accommodation when I have sufficient clinical information to support the request within the scope of our professional relationship.
Any documentation I provide reflects my professional opinion regarding the client’s clinical needs and is based upon my work with the client—not an evaluation of the animal, its training, temperament, or behavior. Documentation is provided at my clinical discretion and cannot be guaranteed in advance.
There is no charge to access records through your secure client portal. Requests requiring me to complete forms, prepare letters, review records, or synthesize clinical information may involve a separate professional fee. Fees are based on the time required and are billed at $150 per hour. I will let you know when a request is expected to involve a fee before beginning the work.
