Frequently Asked Questions
Why go to therapy?
Life can be stressful and even painful. How we cope with difficult, painful, or traumatic experiences throughout our lives can affect us for our entire adulthood in terms of our capacity to grow from those experiences and our ability to withstand future stressors. Chronic conditions like anxiety and depression usually cannot be overcome by medication alone. Whether you are facing a chronic condition, a childhood wound, or a present-day struggle, the difference between navigating it by yourself and having skillful, compassionate support for the journey is the difference between potential overwhelm and the potential to grow, heal, and transform.
How long and how frequently should I go to therapy?
Your therapeutic journey is determined by the nature of the issue you would like to address. I believe that a good starting point is to meet on a weekly basis, until we decide that the initial issue has been fully resolved or that it otherwise is beneficial for you to decrease the frequency of our sessions. Ideally, we will decide together when you have come to an organic stopping or ending point. Consciously closing our time together is critical step in moving on. I ask that we share this conversation in person or on the telephone, rather than via text message or email.
Do you take insurance?
I take Aetna, Cigna, Optum and Fidelis insurances ( this includes United Healthcare).
What are your fees?
My fee is $150 per session. For those experiencing financial hardship, I offer a sliding scale.
What is hypnosis/trance?
Hypnosis is a modality that has evolved a lot in the past several years. It is commonly accepted that our mind has both a conscious aspect and an unconscious aspect. The conscious mind is what we typically identify with and believe that we are acting from. Talk therapy usually only works with this part of a person’s mind. The unconscious mind is the part of us that drives our impulses, deeper motivations, and our creativity. Our aim in using the trance state is to open the flow of information between these two parts, so that the information we seek can be skillfully accessed and a greater sense of wholeness achieved.
Originally, hypnosis was an authoritarian way to communicate directly with the unconscious mind, bypassing the conscious mind entirely. Today, we honor and respect both the conscious and unconscious minds as two, important parts of a person that can work together for the best outcome—a positive change in one’s consciousness. This is the work that I invite you to enter into with me.