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Getting Started - What it's like the first time you come in.
Whether you are seeking individual or group therapy, we begin with an intake assessment.
At this intake we begin with a standard review of my practice guidelines, ethical standards, financial arrangements, and HIPAA standards. We then invite you to review your primary concerns, current coping strategies, and review your biological, mental health, and social history to create the context for this distress. At this session you are also invited to seek more information about your therapist, your therapist's style, ask about your therapist's hypotheses for your presenting problems, and discuss treatment options.
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Common Client Concerns:
* Chronic Pain, both from injury and illness (including autoimmune disorders)
* Physical Symptoms (Gastrointestinal Distress, Tension, Fatigue, Headaches)
* Chronic Illness
* Sadness/Depression
* Difficulty Managing Stress
* Excessive Worry / Anxiety Attacks
* Insomnia
* Phobias
* Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
* Weight Management / Type II Diabetes
* Feeling Numb, Detached, Losing Interest or Pleasure in Activities
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Evidence-based Psychotherapy helps you improve your quality of life, validates your experience, supports your healthy goals & growth, and helps you learn and utilize skills such as:
* Stress Management
* Mindfulness
* Interpersonal skills
* Cognitive Restructuring
* Awareness of triggers, old coping styles and choices for new coping styles
* Moderation / Balance
* Sleep Hygiene
* Emotional Regulation
* Avoidance / Approach skills for difficult emotions, thoughts, behaviors, relationships & activities
While these terms may seem foreign now, each one strengthens your foundation for a fuller and healthier life.
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We frame therapeutic sessions around the scientific method to establish a guide for individuals to understand the process of therapy. Thus, we then develop more comprehensive hypotheses and measurable treatment goals, regularly assess progress, focus on personal awareness, education about your primary problems, skill development and symptom management. Our goal is to to be as precise in our understanding of your primary concerns, so you can experience time-limited, efficient and effective therapy allowing you to live life to its fullest.
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Fees and Flexible Payment Plans
To accommodate your mental health needs with your financial needs we have a variety of methods to flexibly and affordably offer care. These include offering:
* Acceptance of Cash or Check
* Acceptance of Visa or Mastercard
* Very flexible payment options so you can pay for your care over time without interest. While we must charge a set rate
for services, these options will help us work together to make your financial commitment more feasible!
Basic Fees are set at the following rates:
Initial intake & assessment session: $225
50-minute therapy session: $135
Group therapy session: $60
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