My office is conveniently located in Decatur in the Humanly office building at 1123 Clairmont Rd, Decatur, GA 30030. It is close to Emory University and Hospital as well as downtown Decatur.

Absolutely! In fact, that’s the only way I do therapy. I do my best work when I can connect to your energy, which I find hard to do over a screen. Being in person creates the kind of intimacy that I believe is needed to talk about the difficult topics that my clients often bring to the table, and I find it’s easier for people to focus on the work that they’re doing in sessions if they’re not surrounded by barking dogs, screaming kids, or messages coming across the phone or computer screen.

Nope. I’m trained to do it and have done it in other work settings, but I find that the kind of connection I like to create with my clients gets lost when talking to someone over a screen. Besides, it’s exhausting to look at a screen all day long, and neither of us deserve that kind of stress. We already have to spend too much time on screens in our work and personal lives. Why not give yourself the gift of some time away from them and actually connect to someone in person?

I have a “no cancellation/no show policy.” This is necessary because a time commitment is made to you and is held exclusively for you. If you cancel or do not show for an appointment, you will be charged the full session fee of $150. This fee is not reimbursable by insurance. You can avoid this fee if you reschedule and keep your appointment for later in the same week. However, if you cancel or miss that appointment as well, you will be charged the full fee. Please keep in mind that there are no guarantees that a new appointment time will either be available at all or at the time/day you need it to be. In those instances, you will be charged the full fee for a missed appointment. I reserve the right to waive this fee due to extenuating circumstances.

Sessions are generally 55 minutes long. If you are late to the session or you choose to end the session prior to that length of time, you will still be charged for the full session, and the session time will not be extended.

The only insurance I accept is original Medicare Part B with the red, white, and blue card. I am not in network with any of the Medicare Advantage plans.

If you do not have original Medicare, sessions are self-pay only. If your insurance plan has out-of-network benefits, you may be able to be reimbursed for a portion of the money spent on my services. Read more about what that means and how to go about it on my Fees page.

During our first appointment, we’ll cover all of the necessary legal topics like confidentiality that I’m required to cover, and I’ll review the initial intake paperwork you completed. Then, you’ll have an opportunity to go more in depth into the problems that we initially discussed during our free consultation session. We’ll develop a direction for treatment, and you’ll have an opportunity to ask any follow-up questions you may have forgotten to ask me during our initial consultation.

That’s a tricky question. I don’t believe that people should be in therapy forever. Rather, I believe that you should come to therapy, get what you need, and then get on with your life, knowing that you may choose to return at another point in your life when things get rough. I wish I could give you an exact number of sessions or amount of time that we will work together, but I can’t. The truth is that every person is different, and the reasons they come to therapy differ as well. A person who is coming in to deal with a recent change in their life probably won’t be in therapy as long as someone who is coming to therapy to deal with lifelong trauma. Some people may get what they need out of therapy in just a few sessions, and some people may be in therapy for a few years depending on the complexity of what they are working on. In either case, this will be an ongoing conversation between the two of us about what best suits your needs, and if you feel like you need to take a break from therapy at any point in time, you are welcome to do so.

As a mental health provider, the No Surprises Act requires that I provide you or your insurance company a written explanation of the total cost of services you can expect to receive over the course of treatment. This is generally referred to as a “Good Faith Estimate.” If your total charges exceed what is written in the Good Faith Estimate, you have the right to appeal those charges. You will receive this as part of your intake paperwork.