Deciding to start therapy is an important decision.

To help you decide if you would like to work with The Healing and Wellness Collective, we’ve provided some answers to the most common questions people have when considering therapy with us.

What we can help you with

  • Overcoming “anxiety about anxiety” and fear-based living.
  • Feeling more fulfilled and connected in your relationships.
  • Integrating your spirituality and other mind/body practices into your healing process.
  • Lessoning the impact trauma and/or childhood abuse on your life as an adult.
  • Overcoming addictions and choosing healthier coping skills.
  • Managing chronic pain, health concerns, and medical conditions.
  • Getting better sleep.
  • Succeeding on your own terms at parenting.
  • Establishing and maintaining boundaries that work for you.
  • Coping with stress from fertility and reproductive health concerns.
  • Building your capacity for fun and joy.
    Finding your way out of the fog of depression or grief.
  • Identifying and living a more personally meaningful life.
  • Developing and strengthening meaningful relationships.
  • Balancing personal, familial, and professional demands.
  • Managing your weight as a lifestyle change, not a diet.

We are an in-network provider for BCBS PPO and self-pay. If you are using insurance, we will confirm your benefits prior to your first appointment so you have a sense of what your benefits for therapy are. We are considered out of network with other insurance providers, however it is still possible to use these benefits. At the time of service, you pay the fee directly and we will provide you with a monthly “Superbill” to submit to your insurance provider for reimbursement. The reimbursement is paid directly to you. Please note that checking benefits is just an estimate and any fees that insurance does not cover are your responsibility.

Teletherapy is essentially the same thing as in-person therapy but from the comfort of your own home! We use Simple Practice to schedule and manage appointments. You’ll receive regular reminders about your appointments and will receive a link that you will use to login to the appointment. We provide all of the same services and specialties that we would in an office. Teletherapy is also covered by insurance as it would be in an office as well!

No. Throughout this site and within the practice, the terms ‘couple’ and ‘partnership’ are often used interchangeably. Of course, your preferred terms related to how your relationship is described will be honored. However, use of the term couples therapy should not deter any parties in partnership with others with whom they seek to improve their relationship. Anyone in a close relationship, be it “traditional” or not, are encouraged to explore if services are right for them.

Couples therapy begins with gathering pertinent history and conducting some form of assessment. Within the first three weeks, each individual of the partnership has an independent meeting with the clinician to clarify their responses to various assessment measures and offer an opportunity for them to speak to their goals directly. Issues highlighted from these meetings are spoken about in aggregate once the group (the couple and therapist) reconvenes. Of note, the couples therapist makes it clear they are not a secret keeper. Results of assessment are shared in the form of a short report wherein the clinician points out potential areas of concern, speaks to their observations of the couple’s dynamics thus far and lays out a general roadmap with interventions to improve the partnership in the way the couple desires.

Many couples enter therapy not in crisis but simply for maintenance and general support. Those parties may be less focused on immediate symptom relief and therefore can tolerate a slower pace. These parties typically meet with the therapist once weekly for the first month as rapport and goodness of fit are established. After such point, these parties may move to bi-weekly sessions depending on their needs.

Couples with more pressing needs or who are interested in a time-bound modality are encouraged to commit to 12 weeks of therapy twice weekly. Insurance typically only pays for 45-minute sessions. As you can imagine, it is difficult to make lasting but efficient progress in such a short amount of time. Meeting at two points during the week provides more opportunity to dig in. If, at the end of the 12-week period, the couple would like to continue on an adjusted schedule, this can be discussed and accommodated.

Yes. Insurance typically allows for 45 minute co-joint sessions that include the subscribed and their partner/family. Couples may pursue 90 minute sessions, however these are likely to be considered out of network services. In some cases it may not be covered at all. Client specific insurance information available to us will be shared in the midst of discussing extended sessions, but clients are ultimately responsible for any charges not covered by insurance.

To start, it is admirable that you are taking the step to investigate your options in what must be a challenging situation. Couples therapy is not advised when there is ongoing physical or sexual abuse between partners. There can be no ongoing physical violence amidst starting therapy. However if all parties are in individual therapy and this behavior has stopped for an extended amount of time, couples therapy work can be initiated on a case by case basis. Many instances of verbal abuse can be addressed in the shared therapeutic space provided this is acknowledge as a major goal of the work.

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