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Therapy

  • Everyone can benefit from therapy! Navigating life with all of its ups and downs is stressful and can take a toll on your sense of self-worth, mental and emotional energy, and on your most important relationships. Whether you’re in the middle of a stressful season or you’re ready to improve your relationship with yourself, therapy always has value. Therapy can be a space to process unresolved trauma, break out of old negative-self talk scripts, create new patterns, or to start building the life you want. No matter your stage of life, therapy can be a valuable way to engage in self-care.

  • Let’s meet for a free, 30 minute consultation! This will give you a chance to share a little bit about what’s been coming up for you and what you’re hoping to work on. This will also give us a chance to get to know each other and for you to see if the on paper fit translates to real life. If we decide together that it’s a good therapy match, then we will schedule our first appointment. If for whatever reason it doesn’t feel like the right fit, then I will work to provide you with some referrals to help you find the support you so deserve.

  • During your first session we can decide together a regular session time that works for both of us. When starting therapy, the typical expectation is that we will meet once a week for a 50-minute session. This helps us to build a relationship and a sense of security and safety and so that you can start to more quickly experience some changes from our sessions. Most of my clients prefer to meet at the same time each week, picking a spot that works for their schedule. As therapy progresses and you experience results and feel better, we may decrease the session frequency to every other week. Throughout the process, I will try my best to be flexible and make sure times are convenient for us both.

  • There’s no specific timeline as everyone arrives at therapy with their own needs. Some people have a specific problem and are looking for short term therapy. Some people come to therapy to heal deep emotional wounds and change life-long struggles and well-entrenched patterns. For others, therapy is a regular self-care routine. Often, these clients work with me for years as a long-term commitment to self-growth. Just know, there is no “right” or “wrong” way of doing therapy and I’m with you throughout the journey in whatever form it takes.

  • Yes! I have primarily been providing telehealth since the start of the pandemic and with traffic and gas prices, it’s no surprise that many clients now prefer to have their sessions online. These clients have come to enjoy meeting for therapy from the comfort of their own homes. The research supports telehealth as an effective therapy structure. It’s also been supported and endorsed for EMDR and I have witnessed beautiful changes for many of my telehealth clients working with EMDR throughout the pandemic. Given the flexibility and the ongoing interest in telehealth services, I expect that I will continue to integrate it as a part of my practice. For those who have zoom fatigue or just want to get out of their home turned work-place, there are options for meeting at the office in-person.

  • Here’s a preview of what you’ll see (me) during a teletherapy session.

  • Yes, I have limited appointments for in-person sessions, including

    Please let me know during the consultation and we’ll see if my office hours and your available times line up!

Insurance

  • I do not accept insurance, which means I am not in-network with any insurance companies. This decision was made to ensure our work together is dictated only by your needs, rather than the demands of insurance providers.

    If you have out-of-network benefits, I am happy to provide you with a Superbill on a monthly or weekly basis. If you’re interested in this option, be sure to reach out to your insurance company and ask if they will reimburse for sessions provided by a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. If so, you’ll also want to make sure you know what your deductible is and how far you are from meeting it.

    To honor our consultation time together, I recommend reaching out to your insurance company to gather these details before we meet.

  • Step 1: Check with your insurance Company

    You can locate the member service phone number on the back of your insurance card

    Step 2: Find out if you have out-of-network coverage

    Ask the rep: "Does my plan include *out-of-network* benefits for mental health care? Specifically for outpatient psychotherapy? Do you cover in-person and also telehealth?"

    - Some insurance companies are no longer offering coverage for telehealth, so please be sure to ask this as well.

    Step 3: Find out if you owe a deductible before the coverage kicks in

    Ask the rep: "Do I have a deductible for out-of-network mental health services, and if so, what is the remaining amount I would have to pay before my health plan starts to reimburse me for any fees I pay out of pocket?"

    Step 4: Find out how much your plan will reimburse you

    Ask the rep: "What is the maximum amount my plan will reimburse for mental health service code 90837 or 90834 with a Psychologist? If the rep does not provide a clear answer, ask: "What is the maximum allowed amount for mental health service code with a psychologist, and what percentage of the maximum allowed amount will my plan pay?" (That's the amount that they would give you back).

Policy

  • My fee is $275 for a 50 minute session. There are some limited sliding scale slots available.

  • Please notify me of any cancellations or reschedules 24 hours or more before your scheduled session time. Any no-shows, cancellations, or rescheduled sessions received with less than 24 hours’ notice, will be charged the full session fee. I offer one grace cancellation per year of therapy.

  • I accept all major credit cards and HSA and FSA cards. Payments are made through a secure, HIPAA-compliant online client portal.

  • Your privacy is important to us. It is The Worth and Wellness Psychology’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, (https://www.worthandwellness.com/), and other sites we own and operate.

    We request personal information when we need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know the reason for collecting it and the ways in which it will be used.

    We retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. Any data collected will be stored and protected within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

    We do not share any personally identifying information publicly or with third parties, except when required by law.

    Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.

    You are free to refuse our request for your personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services.

    Your continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, feel free to contact us.

    This policy is effective as of 7/1/2022.

  • By law, you have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate,” or GFE, explaining how much your medical care will cost. Under the law, health care providers need to provide patients who do not have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the bill for medical records and services. You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency items or services.

    You have the right to receive a GFE in writing at least 1 business day before your medical service. Within the context of therapy, we discuss the fee for your therapy service up front. However, the ‘No Surprises Act’ wants providers to make total fees clear. You can ask your healthcare provider for a GFE before you schedule a service.

    If you receive a bill for $400 more than your GFE, you can dispute the bill. Make sure to save a copy or image of your Good Faith Estimate.

    For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises