Rates & Insurance

Rates & Insurance for Individuals and Couples

The fee for an individual session is $250. I can sometimes accommodate a modest slide down to $200 per individual session, based on financial need and evaluated quarterly. I am happy to work with out-of-network (OON) benefits, which can cover anywhere from 20-80% of the therapy fee. And if you're not sure whether you have OON benefits, I don't mind calling your plan for you to get all the deets! You would just need to send me your member ID and date of birth. My full fee for couples is $300 per session. And the same out-of-network details may apply for your couple’s therapy, which I’m happy to call and find out for you 🙂

The only insurance plans I am in-network with are Enthea and Alameda Alliance (Medi-Cal and Medi-Care within Alameda County, California).

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And for those unable to afford any of these rates, I'm thrilled to offer super accessible ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) groups!

Low Fee Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Groups

I'm always recruiting for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) groups, with a new cohort beginning about every three months. The fee is currently $70 per one-hour group preparation or integration session, and $140 per three-hour dosing session. The groups are very intimate, with no more than four participants per cohort. We start with a series of three one-hour preparation sessions, two three-hour dosing sessions and four one-hour integration sessions, and then group members can choose to continue with anywhere from 4-6 additional group dosing sessions in the next cohorts, ongoing dosing sessions 1:1 with me, 1:1 integration with me, or referrals for accessible 1:1 ongoing integration with another therapist. The soul and aim of this group is all about keeping psychedelic-assisted therapy accessible, and I’m in love with providing this. 

So that you can budget and plan accordingly, the first two dosing sessions would necessitate an initial one-hour medical evaluation with Journey Clinical at $350 paid directly to Journey Clinical. Unfortunately, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is such an emergent service that most insurance plans will not cover the cost of your medical evaluation. If you chose to continue with further dosing sessions (after the first two), you would need to book one more half-hour medical evaluation with Journey Clinical at $298.

Payment

I accept cash, checks, and all major credit cards as forms of payment. Typically, my Stripe system will automatically charge your card the night after a completed therapy session, so you never have to worry about payment. 

Cancellation Policy

This therapy practice has a no-cancelation policy. This means that you agree to pay for the weekly session time that has been held for you whether or not you make it to your session. In cases of an unexpected need to reschedule, a reschedule to the prior week, the same week, or the week after would be permitted at a time no fewer than 24 hours ahead of the newly granted time. So this way, you will either be granted a different session time within the same week (if possible), or we would plan to have two sessions the week before your need to reschedule, or two sessions the week after. If you choose not to avail of this, you may still be charged my full fee for the session that you missed, which is currently $250, rather than your sliding scale rate or insurance copay.

No Surprises Act

As of January 1st, 2022, a legislative package called the No Surprises Act was passed which affects the medical and mental health worlds. It was designed to prevent people from receiving medical treatments mistakenly believing the treatments were covered by their insurance only to find out later that they were not when they receive a large, surprising bill in the mail. As a result of the No Surprises Act, you are entitled to receive a document called a Good Faith Estimate from me at the time that you become my client, and to request an additional Good Faith Estimate at any other time that we are working together.

Since there are no hidden fees in therapy, and the therapy relationship is based on transparency, your Good Faith Estimate will not contain any information that is different from what you will already know about therapy costs at the time that we decide to work together. (I.e., It will be very clear at the outset whether you will be using insurance out of network benefits or not, how much therapy costs, and how payment will work.) And your Good Faith Estimate is not intended to be a recommendation or a prediction of how long you will be in therapy. You are always free to terminate your therapy or to switch to a different practitioner at any time.

Additionally, at any point in our work together, based on what is happening in your life and what you are needing, you may increase to two sessions per week, or decrease to biweekly sessions. Also, if you experience financial difficulties at any time in our work together, we would talk about adjusting your fee within the range of what I can accommodate. Therefore, the estimate provided on your Good Faith Estimate may not end up being the real amount that you ultimately invest in therapy.

Should you decide to become my client, we would discuss all of this and ensure you feel very comfortable with all of the above information and with anything else you may like or need to know about therapy, payment, and what to expect.

Any Other Questions

Please contact me for any additional questions you may have. I look forward to hearing from you!