Individual therapy: $150 (50-minute sessions)

Couples therapy: $225 (75-minute sessions)

Group therapy: $80 (90-minute sessions, for 8 weeks)

Right now, Sessions Psychotherapy does not accept insurance. I am happy to provide you with a superbill that you can submit to your insurance provider if they offer full or partial reimbursement. However, you will want to double check that your insurance provider will reimburse for services from an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist.

There is no question—online therapy is effective and can work for you! Current research largely indicates that online therapy is also as effective as in person therapy, although there is not yet much research that looks at efficacy across modalities. Online therapy and in-person therapy largely overlap in terms of how they work and what makes them effective, but there are some nuances where each has an advantage over the other.

The better question might be, is online therapy as effective for YOU personally as in-person therapy? You may find that being able to do therapy from home feels safer than in-person and unlocks new areas of work for you. Or you may find that sharing the same physical space with your therapist feels safer than an online session. Or you may find you like and get a lot out of both settings. Perhaps you like in-person a little better, but don’t wind up going to therapy as often as you would otherwise because of the logistical challenge of getting there, in which case perhaps more consistent online sessions could be more effective for you. We are all different and have different needs—the important thing is finding something that works for you.

I take concepts from a variety of different therapeutic modalities, including relational, somatic, humanistic, psychodynamic, attachment-based, and gestalt. As a trauma-informed therapist, I often offer somatic (body-based) tools to help you manage and feel big emotions as they come up, and sometimes this will also look / sound like mindfulness.

Online therapy works pretty much the same way in-person therapy does! Before a session with me, you will receive a link to a secure, HIPAA-compliant online room that allows for face-to-face video interaction. (Sessions Psychotherapy, the practice I work in, uses software by SimplePractice.) Once the session begins, we spend 50-minutes together. Sometimes you will be talking, sometimes we will be checking in with our bodies, sometimes we will be learning new tools for emotional and nervous system regulation, and sometimes we will be exploring the relationship between us and how we are relating to one another.

Generally speaking, I want to attend to whatever is most present for you in any given session. That might be something entirely new or it might be picking up a thread from a previous session. It might be about something that’s going on in your life currently, something that happened a while ago, or about something that’s happening in our relationship.

Online therapy can be much more convenient for many folks, because you can join a therapy session from anywhere in California. Many people like to have therapy from the comfort of their own homes where it feels safe and cozy. (We therapists like that, too! You will often find me in session with a cozy blanket and a hot mug of tea.) Others have a really busy schedule and are able to find time in the work day to duck into a conference room for therapy. Still others prefer to be in nature—whether that means having therapy under your favorite tree or in your garden.

Online therapy can be especially helpful for families as well. Some clients are only able to come to therapy because they don’t have to also arrange (and pay) for childcare. And some of our younger clients (I see teens, too!) are able to come to therapy without their parents having to make another trip.

Are there trade-offs to having online therapy? Of course there are! While in-person therapy and online therapy are both effective, they do have slight differences. For some people, getting out of the house and going somewhere to have therapy is a real, tangible benefit. This can be particularly true if therapy is one of the few times you would normally have to see another human in-person. (For those of us who work from home, having a reason to leave our homes is really, really good for us!) In-person therapy also can feel different from a bodily perspective—there is something a little different when two people are sharing the same physical space. That said, you can still feel one another’s presence online, it’s just a little different and a bit more muted.

When considering an online therapist, you’ll want to make sure the therapist is able to effectively track you and your emotional state despite the screen. (Perhaps that sounds like the worst thing in the world to you—stop tracking my every facial movement, you might be thinking! But trust me here, working with someone that is able to detect a slight shift in you is where the magic happens.) I have been using video calls for a decade and a half (at the risk of dating myself, I remember using WebEx and GoToMeeting back in the day), and have a ton of experience working in this virtual world.

No, we do not record our therapy sessions at Sessions Psychotherapy.

When you think of a therapist, you might be thinking of a person that can prescribe medication, but actually a psychotherapist is not a doctor of medicine and has no ability to prescribe medication. If you are considering taking medication as a part of your approach to mental health, you will want to look for a psychiatrist in addition to a therapist. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor with specific training and expertise in treating specific symptoms and presentations of symptoms with medication.

I highly recommend that if you are considering taking medication, you also consider therapy with a psychotherapist or psychologist! Medication can bring some more immediate relief and provide us with the opportunity to do the longer-lasting work of therapy.