FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
How much does therapy cost? What forms of payment can be used? $60 - $75 per 55-minute individual session $70 - $85 per 55-minute couples session Session rates vary for primary therapists or associate therapists. Sliding scale fees are available on a limited basis. Accepted forms of payment are checks, credit cards, online payment services, and Cash (10% Discount). (Paypal) What is the cancellation policy? There is a 48-hour/2 day cancellation policy, in order to cancel or reschedule appointments. Canceling without proper notice will incur a full fee of the session.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
Our approach to couples & family therapy combines the following practices: Gottman Method for couples is a very controlled and goal-oriented form of therapy. The technique focuses on increasing closeness, respect and affection. One of the goals is to help couples manage conflict instead of focusing on conflict resolution. Illustrating a higher sense of empathy and understanding is what is requested of couples. Tools such as building love maps, create shared dreams and meaning, and work on trust and commitment. Insight Oriented Couples Therapy is a therapeutic approach where your therapist will closely analyze, collect and analyze you and your partner’s style of interacting and communication. An interpretation of the problem is given through developmental and attachment theory. The therapist helps each partner understand past issues of one another’s possible unmet emotional needs. Narrative Couples and Family Therapy offers a perspective of separating individuals and or the couple from their issue and looking at the problem more externally. The goal is to create more nonjudgmental and meaningful exchanges, which help couples and families feel closer by reconnecting through their strengths. Psychodynamic & Psychoanalytic theory examines how the past influences the present, through past family of origin issues. This technique emphasizes bringing insight and discussion into unconscious issues, to change perception and behavior. Family Systems Therapy examines the entire family system, where individual members of the family play roles that entwine their relationships to form a issues that are universal among the family. The members’ roles are acted, felt, and conversed to see the cause and effect between various members, and resolve the issue as a whole group.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Grand Canyon University Master in Marriage and Family Therapy