FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Logistics
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Individual Therapy
Choose the rate that is sustainable to you within the range of $180-$250 per 50-minute session. Intake sessions are 75 minutes and are prorated at your chosen hourly rate.
Couples Therapy
$250-$300 per 75 minute session. Intake sessions are 90 minutes and are prorated at your chosen hourly rate.
Payment is processed up to 24 hours prior to each scheduled session to reserve and confirm your appointment—no action is needed on your part.
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I do not accept insurance directly, but I’m happy to provide a superbill (receipt) you can submit to your insurance provider for potential out-of-network reimbursement. You may also use HSA/FSA funds to pay for therapy sessions.
To check if you have out-of-network mental health benefits, I recommend calling your insurance provider and asking:
Do I have out of network mental health benefits? If so, what percentage of each session is reimbursed?
Are telehealth sessions eligible for reimbursement?
What is my deductible for out of network coverage and has it been met?
How do I submit claims for reimbursement?
You can also use the benefits checker at the bottom of this page. If you prefer not to submit superbills yourself, I can invite you to use Mentaya, a company that handles the reimbursement process for you, for a 5% fee per session.
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Couples therapy is typically private-pay. Insurance reimbursement requires a mental health diagnosis, which a couple or dyad often does not qualify for. In some cases, one or both partners may meet criteria for a reimbursable diagnosis — and if that diagnosis becomes a clinical focus of the couples work, insurance billing may be possible. This will be evaluated during your intake session. You're welcome to check your potential benefits below as a first step, though whether reimbursement is possible will depend on the diagnosis determined at intake.
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All sessions are conducted online via a secure telehealth platform. I work with clients throughout California.
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Individual therapy sessions are 50 minutes or 75 minutes.
Couples sessions are 75 minutes.
Intake sessions are longer — 90 minutes for individuals and 2 hours for couples — to allow for a fuller picture from the start.
I always welcome longer sessions to allow time to do deeper work. You may request to schedule a longer session at any time.
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Most clients begin with weekly sessions, which creates the consistency needed for meaningful momentum. We'll discuss what makes sense for your schedule, goals, and budget.
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I ask for at least 24 hours' notice to cancel or reschedule. Cancellations with less notice or missed appointments are charged the full session fee.
This policy helps me run a sustainable practice and hold a consistent time for you and for other clients who may be waiting for an appointment.
I understand that emergencies happen, and I determine exceptions to the 24 hour cancellation policy on a case by case basis.
Getting Started
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Yes. I offer a complimentary 20-minute phone consultation to explore whether we'd be a good fit. You can book directly online, or send me an email with a little background on what you're looking for, and we'll go from there.
That said, a brief call can only tell us so much. I often encourage prospective clients to try a session or few before deciding — the real sense of fit tends to emerge through the work itself.
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I work with individuals, couples, family members, and groups ages 25 and up.
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The first session is a chance for us to get oriented — I'll want to understand what's bringing you in, what you're hoping for, and what's felt missing.
The first few sessions are also a mutual getting-to-know-you: we're both getting a sense of whether working together feels right. If at any point it seems like a different therapist or modality would serve you better, I'll tell you that directly and help connect you with the right fit.
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Not at all. Many clients come not because something is broken, but because they're in a season of transition and want intentional support. You don't need to be in crisis to deserve care.
Approach
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Somatic therapy works with the body as an integral part of the healing process. Rather than only talking about your experiences, we pay attention to what's happening in your body — sensations, tension, breath, posture — as a doorway into deeper emotional processing. The body often holds what the mind alone can't resolve.
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Experiential therapy focuses on your lived, moment-to-moment experience rather than analyzing thoughts or events from a distance. By slowing down and bringing awareness to what's actually happening inside you — emotionally, physically, relationally — change emerges through experience rather than insight alone. It tends to feel more integrated and lasting as a result.
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Interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB) is a multidisciplinary framework developed by Dr. Daniel Siegel that understands the mind as both embodied and relational. It posits that our brains and nervous systems develop, organize, and regulate through relationships—both with others and with ourselves. From this perspective, psychological health and well-being are defined as integration: the seamless coordination between different aspects of the brain, body, and relationships to function with flexibility, adaptability, and stability.
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I take an integrative approach to couples therapy, drawing from several evidence-based and experiential modalities depending on what each relationship needs. This may include:
Gottman Method: Practical, research-based tools to improve communication, manage conflict, strengthen friendship, and build lasting connection.
Relational Life Therapy (RLT): Focuses on relational patterns, power dynamics, boundaries, accountability, and moving beyond unhealthy dynamics.
Attachment-focused therapy: Explores the deeper needs and attachment patterns that shape how partners connect, pursue, withdraw, and respond to one another.
Somatic co-regulation: Helps couples recognize nervous-system patterns and learn to create greater safety, steadiness, and connection together.
Trauma work: Addresses past experiences and wounds that may be showing up in the relationship and influencing present-day reactions.
Parts work: Helps each partner understand the different protective parts of themselves that emerge during conflict, creating greater self-awareness, compassion, and choice.
Together, we look beyond the surface of the conflict to understand what is happening underneath it—and create new ways of relating that feel more secure, connected, and authentic.
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For couples work, I usually do assign homework between sessions, as I find it helps couples practice the skills learned and themes addressed in session.
For individual therapy, sometimes. Depending on what we're working on, I may offer practices and resources to support the work between sessions — nothing overwhelming, just tools to keep the process alive in your daily life.