My fee is $275 per session

I am considered an "Out-Of-Network" provider, which means I do not accept any insurance directly. I’ve made the decision to work directly with my clients regarding payment, and they are very satisfied with this arrangement.

If you would still like to use your insurance, then you can potentially do so if your insurance plan has “Out-Of-Network” benefits. The way that would work is, you would pay for therapy at the time of the session, and then I will provide you with a “superbill” that you can submit to your insurance company for possible reimbursement.

I would recommend calling your insurance company to confirm if your insurance policy has OON benefits for mental health services.

Most of my clients actually prefer to work with me privately and not involve their insurance at all. This is for the following reasons:

(A) In order to use your insurance for counseling, a mental health diagnosis is required, and this gets attached to your record. If your challenges don’t meet the threshold of a diagnosis, then insurance companies can choose not to cover your therapy.

(B) Insurance can put limitations on the number of therapy sessions you can have, prior to truly completing the process.

(C) An insurance company has a right to call the therapist and ask how sessions are going, and at any point they can say that therapy is no longer medically necessary and cancel the coverage

(D) And by not taking insurance, I’m able to maintain a smaller caseload of clientele and devote all of my focus into helping people. Instead of taking hours each week going back and forth with insurance, I devote that time and energy to my clients, resulting in better outcomes for therapy.

If you have more questions about this, or have questions about finding your OON benefits and would like to discuss, then I recommend reaching out to me on my contact page and I’d be happy to answer any questions.

In the first session, I’ll ask you to tell me about the experiences that led to your decision to seek help, and about the aims you have for therapy. Listening closely to you, I’ll then offer my own initial sense of your experience, and my thoughts on how we might proceed. I’ll tell you about how I work and answer any questions that are on your mind. Importantly, in this first session, you begin to get a feel for what it would be like to work together.

I played drums professionally for many years and still play occasionally. I also travel to India and Turkey annually, and offer psychotherapeutic adventure tours in the Himalayas and South India once or twice a year.