Step 1: Schedule a consultation appointment to determine which service is right for you.

Step 2: Payment will be collected at the start of the session

Step 3: A recommendation will be made based on the consultation.

Step 4: You will be scheduled for a follow-up appointment or given the appropriate referrals

The initial evaluation will be an assessment to discuss the client’s history and needs for treatment. During this first session the client will have the opportunity to see how therapy will work, review office policies, privacy and confidentiality, as well as determine whether or not they are comfortable with the therapist.

Fees are paid in full at the time of service. Payment is accepted in the form of cash, check, or credit card (Visa & MasterCard). As a healthcare provider, we accept Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA).

Sessions range from 30 minutes, 45 or 50 minutes, depending on what was booked. Each session will be spent working on the identified treatment goals using personalized approaches. Each session will vary but the structure is similar. We will review what has happened in between meetings, discussed assigned homework (if assigned), and talk about client-led topics. Every client is different, with different needs for the amount of time they will be seeing a therapist.

It depends on what the client chooses as well as what is in their best interest therapeutically. The overall goal is that people feel better and go back to their lives.

Once clients ‘graduate’ from seeing their therapist, many treat their therapist as one more tool in their health toolbox–checking in when necessary.

Basically, whatever you say in therapy, stays in therapy. However, there are times when a therapist is legally obligated to break confidentiality:

Harm to self or others.? If a therapist believes that you are in imminent danger of hurting yourself or someone else, a family member, police or ambulance will be called to ensure safety.

A child under the age of 16 or older adult in care is in danger.? In these cases Family and Children’s Services or the police will be called.

Your files are subpoenaed by the court or by the College of Registered Psychotherapists.

A client experienced a health emergency during a session.? In this case, medical staff would be provided only with necessary information.? No information? about why a client is in therapy will be shared.

Some therapists (myself included) carry confidentiality into the community.? I inform clients that if I see them in the community I will not say hello.? I don’t want to put anyone is a situation where they have to explain how they know me.? I am always open to speaking to clients outside of the office, but they get to make first contact.