FAQ

Anxiety, trauma, and the midlife transition, with much of my work centered on women in perimenopause and the years after. Therapy is trauma-informed, incorporates EMDR and somatic practice, and considers physiology as part of the clinical picture rather than something separate from mental health.

That focus comes from the same work behind Menopause Is Not a Mood. The menopausal transition alters systems involved in stress response, sleep, and emotional reactivity, yet those changes are too often excluded from mental health treatment. Therapy here accounts for them.

Sessions are fully telehealth for adults in Texas and Arizona.

Existential psychotherapy, EMDR, attachment-focused work, IFS and somatic approaches, selected based on what a specific person is working with rather than applied uniformly. Someone processing a discrete trauma needs something different from someone whose nervous system has been running at capacity for a decade.

The through line is that mind and body are treated as one system. Physiology shapes emotional experience, and emotional experience shapes physiology. Therapy that addresses only one of them leaves the other unaccounted for.

My fee is $200 for a 50-minute session. Like most specialty providers, I do not participate in insurance plans. Private pay allows for maximum confidentiality, clinical flexibility, and care that is not subject to insurance-driven limitations on treatment.

I provide a superbill after your session that you can submit to your insurance company for out-of-network reimbursement. Many plans reimburse a significant portion of the session fee. Your insurer can tell you what your out-of-network benefit covers before you begin.

If you find my name listed on an insurance panel, that listing is outdated. I am private pay only and do not bill insurance or process reimbursement.

I can help with this. Send me your insurance information and I'll find out what your plan covers, including your out-of-network deductible, the reimbursement percentage, and how the submission process works. You'll know what to expect before you commit to anything.

If you'd prefer to check yourself, the member services number on the back of your card can tell you the same things.

Yes. Trauma is stored in the body and shapes how the nervous system responds long after the original experience, so the work addresses the body's patterns alongside the narrative.

I'm EMDR-trained and work somatically. Pacing is set by what your system can hold.

I'll ask what brought you in, what you've tried, and what hasn't worked. We'll cover relevant history, including physical health and anything that's changed recently. By the end you'll have a sense of how we’ll approach our work.