Psychotherapy
The therapeutic engagement is, indeed, costly.
Psychotherapy has been described as a healing conversation that grows across time. It is the intimate opportunity to get into relationship with psychic organization, pain, and defensive-suffering with the hope of understanding and creatively overcoming these issues. Analyst Rollo May thought of therapy as the constant collaboration of thinking and self-creation simultaneously.
That said, it is a sacrifice of time, of effort, of psychic strength, of courage, and of resources. This work is an investment; a commitment; a process. But the benefits?
They are truly transformational;
they are beyond what can be priced.
For what we are talking about is your life—your relationships, your heart and mind and body and soul. How you think; how you feel; how you relate to yourself and to this big world around you.
Things truly priceless.
With that, my normal fees per session hour are:
initial Intake—to ensure we can work together— $170. (you will not be billed if either of us decide we are not a good fit)
$170.00 for individuals;
$200.00 for couples;
with Sliding Scale (adjusted fee) hours available, for those who may need financial help, to be disclosed in initial contact.
How frequently we meet depends on a number of factors; I find once a week the best place to begin. Initial and ongoing conversation will be had around whether or not multiple sessions a week would be useful for you.
Our mutual protection of the clinical hour(s) is extremely important; I strongly believe that continuity, momentum, and rhythm are vital to therapeutic work and deep change. It is best for us to find workable time for both of us that is consistent week to week; this time is set aside exclusively for you.
For the length of our work together, I expect payment for each session regardless of whether or not you have attended. This is to hold your specific session in my calendar and the integrity of the depth of work. If a session is missed—and you’ve let me know in advance—a rescheduled make-up can be attempted for that same week, however, cannot be guaranteed.
You, of course, are not charged for sessions when I am unavailable because of a preplanned absence or illness.
Supervision & consultation
this invisible work needs other eyes
One of the downfalls of this work as practitioners is that it can be incredibly lonely and isolating. A growing portion of my passion and practice is providing supervision and consultation to other helping professionals in the field—whether already fully licensed or working towards Washington State licensure. As a Washington State Approved Supervisor, I work with social workers, psychotherapists, marriage and family counselors and students with their cases and clinical experience. No matter how we practice, this is a demanding work and part of what supervision and consultation offers is the attentive and curious and supportive mind of another focusing solely on you and your cases. We talk and think through wherever you might be feeling confused, stuck, lost and/or overwhelmed in your work and infrastructure of practice.
I view Supervision as collaborative and alive, creating a space where you can truthfully share where you are in your individual process.
The analyst Wilfred Bion spoke of the importance of reverie, of dreaming the patient’s material in real time on their behalf; this is my aim with you. It is my desire to use my rich clinical experience and my theoretical knowledge to soak in the story of you and your work—with the goal of illuminating and growing attention, skill, and confidence in your own mind and self as therapeutic instrument. As a participant in ongoing consultation myself for ten years, I know firsthand the remarkable affect this can have in aiding and growing clinical abilities and confidence.
With that, my fees per session hour is:
$170 FOR professional CLINICAL supervision or consultation, adjusted fee available.
I offer expertise in LGBTQ+/Queer issues and culture, anxiety, creativity, narcissism, shame, complex trauma, and psychoanalytic thinking. I also have formulated extensive thinking on Christian philosophy and theology, and the potential negative impacts on the development of true mind and personality within a person. I also offer multiple years of experience as a teaching assistant and assistant instructor for graduate-level coursework and assignments in psychology and psychotherapy.