The questions people ask before starting therapy.

Send the form on the contact page with your name, your email, and whether you are looking for individual or couples therapy. I reply to arrange a free 30-minute consultation. If you would rather write to me directly, the email address is on the same page.

Longer than a few weeks, and I would rather say that now than after you have invested six sessions expecting a finish line. This is longer-term, depth-oriented work, so months is a realistic frame. We review the work as it goes, and you are never locked into a fixed number of sessions or a package.

You do not have to decide from a website. The free consultation exists for exactly this: you hear how I talk, ask anything you like, and then choose. If I do not think I am the right person for what you are bringing, I will say so and help you find someone who is. A good referral out is an outcome, not a rejection.

There is not one. Every session is online by secure video, and that is deliberate rather than a compromise: no waiting room, no commute, and no chance of meeting someone you know in the corridor. I ask that people not turn up anywhere expecting to meet me, because there is nowhere to turn up.

No. I offer weekday daytime and evening appointments, and I keep weekends for my family. If weekday evenings are the only window you have, that usually works, and it is worth saying so in your first message so we can match times early.

50 minutes. Weekly to begin with is the norm, and for couples it is close to essential early on. After there is some traction, many people move to every other week and then to occasional check-ins. Nothing about the schedule is fixed, and we can change it as your life changes.

Sessions run through a secure, HIPAA-compliant SimplePractice video portal. You get a private link before each session and you do not need to install an app or create an account if you would rather not. A quiet room, headphones if there are people nearby, and a reasonable internet connection are genuinely all you need.

$275 for a 50-minute session, and the same rate whether you come as an individual or as a couple. The 30-minute consultation is free. Payment is due at the time of the session and is collected through the SimplePractice client portal.

Not directly. I am an out-of-network provider, which means you pay me and then claim from your insurer if your plan allows it. I provide a superbill on request with the codes your plan needs. Call the number on your card and ask about out-of-network mental health benefits, because the answer varies far more between plans than people expect.

I keep a small number of reduced-fee places for clients for whom the standard rate is a real barrier. Ask in your first message rather than after several sessions, since the places are limited and I would rather have that conversation before you have paid full rate three times.

Yes. What you say in session stays between us, with a short list of legal exceptions that I walk through with you before we start: a serious risk of harm to you or another person, suspected abuse or neglect of a child or a vulnerable adult, and a court order. In couples work I am also clear from the first session about how I handle anything shared with me individually.

No, and please read this part carefully. This is outpatient therapy for people who are functioning day to day, even if it costs them. It is not a crisis service and I am not reachable around the clock. If you are in immediate danger or in crisis, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or call 911.

I am a Christian, and for clients who want it, therapy can include reflection on faith and spirituality. That is client-led: I do not raise it if you do not. I work with people of other beliefs and no belief at all, and the therapy looks the same from the outside. There is room here for doubt and frustration as much as for certainty.

Then I probably cannot work with you, and I will say so rather than take the appointment. Therapy depends on you being able to say anything, and that is much harder when we might see each other at church, at school, or at a family gathering. The same applies to close friends and family of someone I am already seeing. I will happily help you find someone good.