My standard rate for a 50min session is $125

I also offer sliding scale rates as low as $30 and can produce monthly superbills for you to submit

I am not in-network with insurance providers

Image: A photo I took while on a hike of a churning river in a forested mountain, covered with mist.

My approach to Sliding Scale

You and I will negotiate a schedule and price on our free 20min phone call that works for us both. I ask you to consider these three factors when choosing a sliding scale price:

  1. Is the price and schedule sustainable for you? Therapy with me often lasts for as few as 3-6 months and as long as many years; choose a price and schedule that you can maintain consistently for as long as you’d like to work with me.

  2. Is the price fair to the value you get from our work? I offer a service that may be hard to find elsewhere and which has been truly transformational for some. Is our negotiated price fair to its value in your life?

  3. Does the price consider contextual factors you cannot control, including financial privileges and disadvantages? Some of these factors may include the presence or absence of inherited wealth or family support, your income, your financial stress, and your identity groups’ levels of economic oppression.

Here are some examples of how clients’ financial circumstances may affect where they land on the sliding scale. Individuals may identify with examples across different categories. These are not rules, just factors to consider:

  • Clients who pay at or near the standard rate ($125 / 50min) may experience some of these things: they have financial support from external sources (e.g., parents/caregivers, secondary/passive income, or a spouse), they can make significant purchases ($200+) without budgeting or planning around the purchase, they travel for leisure more than a couple times per year, they would be able to get back on their feet and would receive support if they lost their job or housing, and may have multiple identities with economically advantaged identity groups (e.g., White, able-bodied, cisgender, straight, American citizen)

  • Clients who pay partly down the sliding scale ($70 - 100 / 50min) generally ‘break even’ financially, can enjoy some luxuries every now and then, make about $25+/hour, meet their regular financial responsibilities (rent, bills, insurance, etc.), do not have wealth (or access to it) in their family, and may have one or more identities with economically oppressed identity groups (e.g., BIPOC, disabled, transgender, queer, immigrant)

  • Clients who pay further down the sliding scale ($30 - $60) may have large amounts of debt, do not work or make very little money, are a student without much financial support, must carefully budget or monitor their finances, including essentials such as groceries, do not have wealth (or access to it) in their family, and may have one or more identities with economically oppressed identity groups