FAQ

Currently, I am seeing people in-person as well as virtually.

Pleasse schedule a discovery call to see if we’re a good fit and to learn more about in-person sessions.

Some information on teletherapy:

Teletherapy is a virtual mental health therapy session via a HIPAA-compliant, online platform using high resolution video and audio.

To participate in teletherapy with me, you will need access to a reliable Internet connection and a device that supports the software on www.doxy.me.

While participating in teletherapy, I will request that you take responsibility for your surroundings by ensuring you have a private space for your sessions. Please ensure you will not be interrupted for the length of the session by planning with any family members or housemates.

Your session could take place in your bedroom, an office, your car, or any other place you feel safe, cared for, and can maintain your attention for the length of our session, as long as you have a strong and reliable Internet connection. You may prefer to wear headphones or earbuds to hear clearly and have increased privacy.

You can find out when I am accepting discovery calls by clicking “Schedule a Free Discovery Call Today” on the home page.

I see clients typically during the week between 9:30am-4:30pm.

We can discuss scheduling appointments on your discovery call.

Schedule your free discovery call by clicking the pink box below.

During that call, we decide if we are a good fit, and can discuss setting up your initial appointment at the end of that call.

Our first session consists of an intake and assessment, during which I will ask you about your social, health and family history. 

The first session is 90 minutes.

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For therapy clients, my fees are as follows:

20-30 minute Discovery call: free!

90 minute Initial Intake Appointment: $200

60 minute follow up appointments: $150

Reiki sessions are 1 hour and are $150

I use Square for all of my appointments and payments, and accept the following forms of payment:

• All major credit cards
• Bank transfer
• HSA/FSA accounts (this also saves you $!)

I offer 60-minute and 90-minute sessions.

No, I do not offer my therapy services on a sliding scale.

No, I do not accept insurance. If you want to submit receipts to your insurance company, I can provide receipts for you.

I do not work on the insurance end of your treatment. You may need to obtain advanced authorization from your insurance provider to ensure the sessions will be reimbursed.

Please be advised that if you use insurance, the records I keep may be subject to review by your insurance provider. While I ensure strict confidentiality in my practice, I have no control over how they use your information when it is in their possession. Further, some of the interventions I provide may not be covered by your insurance provider.

This is covered in detail in my Informed Consent paperwork you will receive when you become a client.

After our discovery call, if we decide to work together, I will ask you to fill out and sign an Informed Consent Form.

You will need to keep it accessible to you if you have questions about a specific policy.

I have several policies which I will discuss more when we decide we can work together. These include policies on confidentiality, our shared values and purpose for entering into the therapeutic alliance, payment at time of session, limited contact outside of appointments, no other relationship beside the therapeutic relationship, my keeping of therapeutic records, and others.

This is a great question, and it depends on your needs and preferences.

For general support, guidance, and healing, we can work together for as long as we feel it is necessary. Many times, therapeutic alliances last for years.

Ultimately, the length of our therapeutic relationship is up to you as the client.

I presently work with adults.

In the first session, I will ask you questions about your social history, as well as about your health, your family and what is currently going on with you that is bringing you to therapy.

After that, you get to determine what we do. We can talk about specific issues that have arisen for you during your week, or I can teach you how to show up to life mindfully, or we can practice breathing in a way that calms the nervous system. I sometimes provide “psychoeducation” to my clients about trauma and stress. And, I always have book recommendations that I will discuss with you in sessions.

We can do role-plays of specific situations going on in your life. We can do “visualization” sessions, an intervention I have developed myself.

The important thing is that you are showing up to therapy to heal mindfully.

As a clinical social worker, I use many modalities. One of the most popular is CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. CBT is a modality that helps you connect your thinking, feelings, and behaviors.

I also received advanced training and certification in trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT), which uses a traumatic event as the focus of therapy, connecting thinking, feelings, and behaviors to a specific instance or a pattern of events.

There are many tools to the trade of therapy, and I mix and match different approaches for different clients. I am spiritual (but not religious) and do bring a level of spiritual awareness to my work. I also incorporate journaling, Narrative Therapy, mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), energy work, Reiki, EMDR, and more into treatment.

I believe that learning is a lifelong endeavor. I am always reading about and taking courses in different modes of therapy, approaches to healing, and tools I can bring into treatment to serve my clients best. There are other modalities of treatment that I am interested in learning more about and applying to my work, such as Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing, and others.

Just like everyone, I am always learning and growing inside (and outside) of my therapy practice.

I have developed an intervention that I call a visualization session, which brings in many modes of therapy, including CBT, journaling, energy work, aromatherapy (when we are in-person), mindfulness, and solution-oriented therapy.

I ask clients to bring a goal to the session, and I use prompts to guide you through to seeing yourself as having completed the goal. This helps put you in the mindset that your dreams are possible.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a modality of therapy that uses stimulus (eye movements, light bar, therapists’ hands, or electronic sensors) to activate the right and left sides of the brain. This therapy helps people who have experienced trauma to witness the trauma from a place of reduced activation and triggering, healing their body and mind from reexperiencing trauma only as a bodily response and be able to bring language to the event.

If you are interested in EMDR, please contact me; we can discuss it further.

Yes, I am actively working to process and work with my racial conditioning. I use a framework by Ruth King called Racial Affinity Groups in her book, Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism From The Inside Out.

As a clinical social worker, I take what is happening in our country to heart. I want to provide the highest level of healing and care to all my clients, which includes doing my own inner work as well as social justice work.

 Master’s in Social Work (MSW) in 2013 from Virginia Commonwealth University
License in Clinical Social Work (LCSW) in Virginia in 2017

I have completed dozens of trainings and courses, including:

• TF-CBT certification
• Reiki Master Practitioner
• Mindfulness trainings through Mindful Schools, The Innerwork Center, ACT (Awareness and Commitment Therapy) training, and others
• EMDR training
• Training in sand tray therapy, art therapy, Responsive Classroom (a social and emotional skill building framework for schools) and others
• currently (as of Winter 2022) working through an Internal Family Systems (IFS) training

I am a clinical social worker, which means I look at a person holistically. I am interested in all levels of functioning in your life:

Biological – your physical body
Psychological – your mental health
Social – your support system
Spiritual – the etheric qualities of the human experience.

I am always wondering about all those parts of you and aim to bring them into my mind as we connect in therapy.

Further, I believe that life is 50/50 positive and negative, and our aversion to that holds us back from living our full experience. I want to help people see that it is not wrong that life is half positive and half negative, that accepting this fact leaves you more open to freedom from striving for perfection.

Then, you can stop giving yourself a hard time for not being perfect and start living your life to its fullest extent.

My favorites are peppermint, star anise, and lavender.

I hope you will have a candle or essential oils with you in your space, to soften your surroundings, and uplift your spirits.