Frequently Asked Questions About Therapy
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I provide individual online therapy for Tennessee residents via weekly sessions or extended sessions. My services are nonreligious, affirming and inclusive, and oriented towards liberatory and decolonizing practices.
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Schedule a free 15-minute consultation call here. If we decide I’m not the best therapist for you, I’ll do what I can to help you find other folks who might be.
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Mostly, practitioner preference! My licensure type is as a Licensed Professional Counselor, and my primary professional organizations are the National Board for Certified Counselors and the American Counseling Association. These names are more tied to the history of the profession.
I consider “therapy” to be basically interchangeable with “counseling” and often use “therapy” since that is the term used by most folks in pop culture and social media at this point.
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Traditional talk therapy weekly sessions run 45 minutes and the session fee is $140.
Extended sessions start at $299 for a weekday 90-minute session and are priced accordingly based on scheduling.
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Many therapists take insurance as a form of payment for therapy, though they must take your insurance in order for you to be able to use it. I do not accept insurance for therapy; my clients pay from their own pocket and sometimes are reimbursed from their employer or insurance plan for “out of network services.”
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For “traditional” weekly recurring therapy, sessions last approximately 45 minutes.
For extended sessions, the duration can be anywhere from 90 minutes to 3 hours for a session.
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Not unless you want to be! With traditional therapy, some clients feel satisfied with their progress in as few as 3-4 months. Many clients find it takes 9 months to a year to get where they want to be, and some clients choose to continue checking in with their therapist for multiple years after their main treatment.
With extended sessions, depending on how often we meet, you may feel satisfied with progress made in as little as 2 months.
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If you’ve recently experienced a lot of change or loss in your life, if you don’t have many friends you can truly rely on and feel safe around, if you are always staying up too late scrolling, if you find yourself overeating or unable to eat, if you struggle with sleeping, or if you wake up feeling exhausted most days, therapy can help you. Regardless of whether you’ve experienced what we would diagnose as “trauma.”
What types of therapy formats are available?
I offer both recurring weekly therapy sessions and extended sessions.
What are recurring therapy sessions like?
Recurring therapy offers a consistent, ongoing space to work through what’s coming up in your life over time.
We’ll get to know each other and collaboratively shape the direction of our work based on what matters most to you—your goals, your patterns, your relationships, and your sense of self.
In each session, you’ll have space to bring whatever feels most important that week. We’ll move at a pace that respects your nervous system—steady enough to build real change, without pushing faster than feels sustainable.
Sessions are 45 minutes (a “clinical hour”) and typically take place weekly or every other week.
This format works well if you’re looking for consistent support, accountability, and space to process things as they unfold.
Sessions are $140 each and are available online throughout Tennessee.
Book a free consult here.
What are extended sessions like?
Extended sessions are designed for people who want more time to settle in and go deeper. This can be especially helpful if you tend to overthink, take time to open up, are neurodivergent, or feel like 45-minute sessions are too short to get where you want to go.
Some clients use extended sessions occasionally, while others prefer it as their primary format.
Sessions are available online throughout Tennessee.
90-minute sessions are $295, with longer sessions (2, 2.5, or 3 hours) discussed in advance and priced accordingly.
You can learn more about whether this format might be a good fit here and/or during a consultation.
How to choose between recurring therapy or extended sessions
Recurring therapy is a good fit if you want consistent, ongoing support and a steady pace over time.
Extended sessions are better if you want more time to go deeper, tend to overthink or take a while to open up, or feel like 45-minute sessions aren’t enough.
If you’re not sure, we can talk through what would work best for you during a consultation.
How do you know if you will benefit from therapy with me?
Therapy with me WILL be:
Engaging and educational, informed by my own continued education, training, and research
Affirming of all the strengths and gifts of having a neurodivergent brain - there’s room to be sensitive and weird here.
Trauma-informed and respectful of your lived experiences
As full of laughter and humor as possible
As deep or intellectually complex as you want it to be
A safe place to vent about discuss the things your conservative family members/coworkers don’t care about or understand
Therapy with me WON’T be:
A wasted hour spent with someone sitting and nodding silently or just reflecting your own thoughts back in a confusing echo
Full of psychobabble, therapist jargon, or other bullshit
Another place you have to mask, perform, or pretend
An experience where I teach you stuff you could easily learn from Google
The thing that fucks up your day, week, or life (unless you want it to be). What’s working for you is what’s working (until it isn’t).
You listening to my opinions about your problems
Something you commit to for the rest of your life
What is a therapy consultation call like?
During our 15-minute consultation phone call, we will talk about what brings you to therapy, and you can ask me any questions you have about my services, who I am, or therapy itself.
I love working with folks who are totally new to therapy as well as folks who have seen multiple therapists before, and there is no such thing as a dumb question in these calls!
If we decide I am not the best fit for you during our call, I’ll provide you with some referrals of who else you can contact for help.