Fees
Psychotherapy: $200 per session.
Clinical hypnosis: $240 per session.
My practice is out-of-network with insurance companies. This is deliberate, to keep your care private and in your hands: no diagnosis is required for our work to proceed; decisions about how many sessions you have and what your therapy should look like stay with you and me rather than with an insurer; and your records stay with me. Unless you choose to seek reimbursement, no insurer ever sees that you are here.
I keep a small number of reduced-fee hours. If the fee is a concern, let me know when you reach out.
Privacy
What you say here stays here. There is no app between us, no platform whose business is your attention, and nothing listening in or learning from you in the background. Your records live in one place, under my name and my responsibility. I value your privacy as much as I value my own. Confidentiality is not a feature of this practice; it is the floor it stands on. The formal version — my Notice of Privacy Practices — describes your rights and my obligations in fuller legal detail. If we ever text, a short text-messaging policy applies; it is here.
Reimbursement
Many people pursue out-of-network reimbursement for sessions. If that is something you are interested in, I can provide monthly superbills to submit to your plan, along with a short guide to the questions worth asking your insurer before our first session to determine your specific coverage. Psychotherapy with a licensed psychologist is generally an eligible FSA or HSA expense; clinical hypnosis for a medical concern usually is too, though some plans ask for a short letter from me, which I am glad to provide at no fee.
Is it worthwhile?
That is a fair question, and one only you can answer. What I can tell you is what the fee buys: an hour of one person’s undivided attention, shaped by years of study and practice in seeing, listening, and understanding — and in helping you see and understand yourself, at a tempo that fits you. In service of getting the most from your precious time on Earth.
What do you ask of me?
Therapy of this kind works best when we meet regularly — usually once or twice a week, at a frequency we agree on — and when you do your best to say whatever comes to mind while you are here — including things that you feel unsure about mentioning, or that seem small, nonsensical, or irrelevant. Beyond that, there is no particular way you need to be, and there is nothing to prepare or complete between our sessions. If keeping to our schedule becomes difficult for any reason, please tell me, so that we can think about it together rather than let it quietly begin to affect your therapy.
Sessions are 50 minutes. The hour we agree on is set aside for you each week — I do not offer it to anyone else, which is why it is called a reserved hour, and why you are responsible for it whether or not you are able to attend. In return, you can count on your agreed-upon hour being protected for you, for the same 50 minutes, each week. When I need to be away myself, I will let you know as far ahead as I can, and there is no charge for an hour I cancel.
If you need to cancel with more than 48 hours’ notice, there is no charge. With less notice, I will offer to meet by secure video at our usual time, or make every effort to find another hour that week, though I cannot promise one. If neither can be arranged, or you decline what is offered, the hour is charged at your full session fee. True emergencies, and weather severe enough to make travel unsafe, are a different matter, and we will simply talk about it.
Location
I see clients in person at 121 West 63rd Street, Suite 202, in Kansas City’s Brookside Village, and by secure video across 40+ PSYPACT states. The office is on the second floor, reached by a flight of stairs.
A good fit
This practice suits adults who want to understand what keeps happening, and are willing to look. Many have had good therapy before and sense there is more to understand. Some are physicians, nurses, therapists, or others whose work is caring for people, and want the same attention turned toward themselves. What people most often bring is on the Psychotherapy page.
I do not specialize in every kind of difficulty. A few concerns are better served by a setting with more support around it — substance use that would benefit from being the main focus of treatment, or an eating disorder that needs medical monitoring, for example. If I believe your needs would be best served by one of my colleagues, I will say so, and help you find a good option.
Beginning
The first step is a brief call, at no fee — to talk about what you’re looking for, and to see whether we’re a fit.
If you would rather begin in writing, use my secure inquiry form; it asks only for the basics, and I will call you back.
Your right to a Good Faith Estimate
Under the federal No Surprises Act, anyone who is not using insurance to pay for health care — psychotherapy included — has the right to a written Good Faith Estimate of what their care is expected to cost, before it begins. I provide one to every client before our first session and renew it once a year; you can also ask for one before we schedule anything. Yours stays available to you in your client portal, and if a bill ever came in substantially above the estimate, you would have the right to dispute it. More at cms.gov/nosurprises.