Individual Sessions: Sessions are offered with a sliding scale fee from $90 - $150 depending on
household income. Sliding scale application can be downloaded or emailed when requested. All payments are made
through Square Point of Sale. Cash or credit, debit cards, and HSA are accepted at time of service.
4-Day EMDR Treatment Retreat ~ $1500 for 7 EMDR Sessions and $219/night for Accommodations.
Why In-network Insurance is not taken:
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Lack of confidentiality and Privacy
When you use insurance to pay for therapy, your therapist is
required to provide your diagnosis and
treatment notes to your insurance company in order to get paid. This undermines the basic premise of therapy and
also gives a lot more people access to private health information about you. If this is news to you, you’re not
alone. It’s all written into the HIPAA document you get when you start therapy (or go to any doctor’s office)
but most people don’t read all the fine print.
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Diagnoses can hold future consequences
Even if you’re okay with your information being shared with your insurance company from a confidentiality
standpoint, you probably didn’t realize that sharing this information can have unintended consequences
in the future.
Your therapist has to provide your insurance company with your diagnosis to get paid. But what if you
don’t have a mental illness? After all, many people seek therapy for personal growth and exploration,
not because they are depressed or anxious or have a serious mental illness.
In the eyes of your insurance company, these are not valid reasons for seeking therapy on their dime. If
you don’t have an actual diagnosis, they aren’t interested in paying for your sessions and will not
continue to authorize future sessions.
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Insurance-Driven Treatment plans
When therapists take insurance, they are required to use treatment methods that are covered by your plan.
This means they have less to say in how to treat you based on your specific and individual needs.
Ironically, the people who work in your insurance company and decide which methods of therapy can be
used, are usually not even therapists! And they certainly haven’t met and assessed you personally like
your therapist has.
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Limited Sessions
Often insurance companies put a limit on the number of sessions that is approved for individuals. This
means that you may have only a number of sessions to work through challenges and not completely resolve
the issue.