Frequently Asked Questions

I work with children and adolescents (Ages 9-18), late teens, college students, young adults, and families.

I believe everyone can benefit from therapy! Some of the common reasons individuals seek out therapy: emotional and mental distress, difficulty with relationships, difficulty regulating emotions, needing to process or problem solve experiences and challenges, needing to improve coping skills, wanting to improve your overall well-being, recent or past traumatic experiences, and ineffective behaviors negatively impact daily life. I have experience working with a wide range of emotional disorders and can help you by assessing and evaluating your current concerns.

Standard individual and family sessions are 50 minutes long, this is a full clinical hour and is standard across most practices. Longer sessions can be scheduled depending on the presenting clinical concerns and your needs, just let me know if you are interested in this and we can discuss it.

There is no definite answer to this question. Typically, it requires more than a couple sessions to make headway on what brings someone to therapy. Some individuals find a few sessions are sufficient, others choose to continue long-term. Sometimes it can take anywhere from 10-20 sessions before noticeable changes start to occur, progress depends on your motivation and willingness to apply what is learned and discussed in the therapy office outside of sessions. I will provide you with my recommendations based on your presenting concerns and help you make the ultimate choice for yourself.

Initial contact can be made in several ways: you can fill out the new client inquiry form on my contact page, you can send me an email, you can call or text my cell phone number – no matter which way you choose, you can expect to hear back from me within 24 hours.

Next, I will ask for a little more information about your current presenting concerns and reasons for seeking therapy at this time. It is also at this point that we can schedule a free 15-minute consultation call if you would like or we can move forward with the next step.

After determining it sounds like I might be a good fit for your needs, I will set up your client portal thought my electronic health records system, Simple Practice. You will receive an email with a link to your client portal. This is where you will complete all paperwork. My paperwork will ask for your basic information (contact details, demographic information, some personal history). It will also contain my practice policies and procedures, confidentiality agreements, informed consent, financial arrangement, and a few other questionnaires that help me get a full picture of your current concerns.