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Frequently Asked Questions

How Can Holistic Therapy Help Me?

I help you:

  • Get to know yourself better.

  • Feel more connected to yourself.

  • Understand emotions better.

  • Make boundaries.

  • Learn how to accept help.

  • Stop doubting yourself.

  • Stop berating yourself.

  • Stop hating yourself.

  • Start trusting yourself.

  • Start liking yourself.

  • Start loving yourself (yes, it’s possible.)

We Will Work on:

  • Reducing your symptoms of guilt, shame, loneliness and disconnection. Other possible symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety, depression, and hypervigilance among many others.

  • Learning healthy coping skills that work for you. Not everyone can meditate and that’s okay! We will find strategies and practices that are best suited to you.

  • Identifying the experiences or situations of today that send you reeling back to feeling like you are still the misunderstood and lonely child of your past.

  • Defeating the voice in your head that tells you you’re worthless, useless, a loser, etc.

  • Strengthening relationships by attending to boundary violations that impede your sense of safety.

  • Promoting healing and growth on a holistic multifaceted level. We will look at all aspects of YOU to see where you want to change.

  • Helping you develop deep and important shifts in perspective, awareness, attitudes, self-understanding and resiliency.

My Therapeutic Approach:

Understand - Understanding is the first step. Emotional neglect involves many occasions of disregarded emotions and feelings. This leads to your self-doubt and confusion because your experiences weren’t validated and that left you feeling wrong, inappropriate and uncomfortable. The first of goal of my therapy is to understand the events and situations that led to who you are today. We only go as deep as you want and we go at the speed you want. Although it is not always an easy process, I will not push or force you beyond your comfort level. With that said, the more brave and courageous your exploration, the more healing is possible. But, you don’t have to do it alone.

Trust - Trusting is the next step. It’s the process of you believing in yourself. It’s you valuing that your new awarenesses and understandings are real, valid and important. Trusting that you are (and were) not overreacting or being too sensitive or blowing things out of proportion. Your experiences, and the influence they have on the person you are today, are real.

Honor - Honoring is the important step of recognizing that you are unique, significant and remarkable! You have lived through, and survived, a very difficult environment in which you were expected to come out thriving. Honoring is the healing part of inspiring you to now thrive. Honoring might be grieving your losses or making long-desired changes or finally trying something you’ve always wanted to try. It’s the time of allowing your needs to be taken seriously and no longer maintaining the neglectful patterns you learned.

How Often Will I Need to Attend Therapy Sessions?

It is completely up to you. You are in charge. You can stay with it for as long or as short as you decide is best for you.

But keep in mind that healing from the insidious and subtle, after-effects of an emotionally neglectful childhood requires a perceptive, shrewd and equally subtle approach - which can take time.

I work on a deeper level so that you are equipped with a real healing of your wounds. Although surface level fixes may help you feel better in that moment I believe that attending to the causes of the wounds will bring you a fuller authentic and life-long healing.

Do You Provide In-Person or Online Therapy?
Currently all therapy sessions are conducted via a secure and easy-to-use telehealth platform (similar to Zoom or Skype).

Do you do EMDR?

At this point in time I am not certified to conduct EMDR sessions.

Do You Accept Insurance?
Currently I do not accept insurances but instead am considered an “out-of-network” provider. This means that I can provide you with a detailed invoice of the service provided - called a “Superbill” - which you are then responsible for submitting to your insurance company for possible reimbursement. It’s not a guarantee that they will reimburse you in full or even at all. Each insurance company is different. 

To figure out your specific benefits I recommend calling your insurance company directly (member services number on the back of the card) for clarification. Due to variations in all insurance companies (and yearly changes as well) it’s important for you to verify your current exact coverage. These are some of the questions to ask:

  • Do I have mental health insurance benefits?

  • Do I have out of network provider coverage?

  • What is my deductible and has it been met?

  • How many sessions per year does my health insurance cover?

  • What is the coverage amount per therapy session?

  • Is approval required from my primary care physician?

  • How does the submission process work?

[Please note though — that in providing you with a Superbill I will need to give you a specific mental health diagnosis due to insurance practices. If you do not want a documented mental health diagnosis then a Superbill would not work for you.]

In the meantime, you are responsible for payment of my fee directly after each session.

What are Your Rates?

  • Spiral Mind Psychotherapy, LLC is self-pay only.

  • Individual session -

    • Self-pay: $100 (45-50 minutes)

    • Self-pay with Superbill: $125 (45 to 50 minutes)

    • Sliding Scale is available - please inquire

  • Group sessions (when available): $60 (75 minutes)

What Forms of Payment Do You Accept?

It is your choice to pay by cash, check or credit care. Spiral Mind Psychotherapy, LLC accepts all major credit cards as well as HSA/FSA accounts.

What is Your Cancellation Policy?
I require at least a 12-hours notice of cancellation or you will need to pay for the appointment. An occasional exception may be made in the case of an emergency.

Do You Prescribe Medication?
No, I am not licensed in any way to prescribe medication. Many people find medication helpful, but it is not absolutely necessary in order to progress well in therapy. It is your choice. If you want to be evaluated for psychiatric medication, contact your primary care physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner or a psychiatrist.

I Have More Questions

By all means, please feel free to reach out to me for any other questions you have!

I look forward to hearing from you!

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INSPIRATION

  • "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

    — Maya Angelou

  • "It's never too late to be what you might have been."

    — George Eliot

  • “Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

    — Carl Jung

  • "The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a conincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people."

    — Carl Jung

  • "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

    — Thomas A. Edison

  • "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

    — George Bernard Shaw

  • "There's a power in words. There's power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

    — Tracy Chapman

  • "I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am."

    — Tracy Chapman

  • "The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified."

    — Sinead O’Connor

  • "Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."

    — Criss Jami

  • "To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment."

    — Eckart Tolle

  • "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity."

    — Thomas J. Watson

  • "I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years."

    — Haruki Murakami

  • "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

    — Aristotle

  • "[A person's] greatness lies in [their] power of thought."

    — Blaise Pascal

  • "In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

    — Eleanor Roosevelt

  • "Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

    — David Hume

  • "Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."

    — F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • "Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be."

    — Thoreau

  • ""To find yourself, think for yourself."

    — Socrates

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  • "The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

    — Albert Einstein

  • "The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."

    — Christoper Hitchens

  • "We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become 'unthinkable,' thinking stops and action becomes mindless."

    — J. William Fulbright

  • "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

    — Marie Curie

  • "Obstacles, of course are developmentally necessary: they teach [people] strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience, and resourcefulness."

    — Naomi Wolf

  • "We will fail when we fail to try."

    — Rosa Parks

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