Services
You might be a good fit for this work if…
• You’re the thoughtful one. The deep thinker. The person people often come to when life gets complicated.
• You feel like you’re standing in the middle of a life transition and your old identity doesn’t quite fit anymore.
• You’ve been through loss, burnout, illness, caregiving, or a season that quietly rearranged your priorities.
• You’re craving depth, meaning, or creativity again after years of just getting through the day.
• You’re a sensitive, intuitive woman who has spent a lot of time holding things together for other people.
• You want a therapist who can handle serious conversations about grief, mortality, identity, and purpose — but who also knows therapy doesn’t have to feel sterile or overly clinical.
• You appreciate a little humor alongside the heavy stuff.
My favorite therapy modalities, all from a feminine-focus psychology theory
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) complements lifestyle-based care by helping individuals identify and shift thought and behavior patterns that contribute to stress or dysregulation. It supports realistic goal-setting, cognitive reframing, and actionable skill-building, making it an effective tool alongside environmental and lifestyle interventions.
- Reminiscence therapy is an evidence-based approach that uses reflection on meaningful life experiences—through stories, photos, or memories—to support emotional processing, identity, and resilience. It is especially helpful for older adults, individuals experiencing grief or depression, those navigating major life transitions like retirement or illness, and clients with cognitive changes, as it supports memory, identity, and meaning-making across seasons of life.
- Experiential Therapy invites exploration of emotions through action rather than dialogue alone. Activities like mindful cooking or nourishing rituals, gardening, nature walks, art, dance, music and sensory grounding during decluttering are used as emotional processing tools, helping clients reconnect with meaning, pleasure, and agency in their daily lives.
- Somatic Psychotherapy recognizes that the body holds stress, memories, and emotions. Through somatic work, we gently guide awareness to physical sensations, movement, and breath, supporting nervous system regulation and creating a safe space for deeper emotional processing.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS-Informed) offers a compassionate approach to exploring the “parts” of yourself that hold fear, overwhelm, perfectionism, grief, or attachment to belongings, roles, or identities.
- Narrative Therapy enables you to re-examine the stories you carry about your home, roles, past identities, possessions, and future. Through metaphors, storytelling, and meaning-making, you can re-author internal narratives that shape emotional patterns, family dynamics, and home rhythms.
- Neurobiologically-Informed Practices enhance our understanding of how the brain responds to sensory load, stress and transitions, allowing us to tailor your environment and habits to support regulation.
- Existential and Transpersonal Psychologies: Existential therapy ponders how to live meaningfully and explores themes of personal responsibility, freedom, choice, identity, mortality and ideas of God/Higher Power or spiritual themes; transpersonal therapy, a close relative to existential therapy, allows that meaning to include intuition, inner knowing, and experiences of connection beyond the self.
- Lifestyle-Based Behavioral Therapy: Your mental health is shaped not only by what you think, but by how you live. Sleep, routines, work demands, caregiving responsibilities, nourishment, and daily stressors all impact emotional resilience. When integrated with Home Ecology Therapy, we also consider how your physical environment influences your nervous system.
Therapy Services
Kansas and Oregon residents only. Telehealth only for Oregon clients. Sessions last 45-53 minutes. You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your care will cost. Late cancels (less than 24 hours) and no-shows will incur a $75 fee. For Kansas residents, I accept Aetna, United Healthcare, UMR, BCBS of Kansas City, and Medicare. Oregon residents: self-pay and BCBS only (check with your insurance).
Individual Session Self-Pay Rate
Insurance can be confusing, and while my billing service does its best to check your coverage, the information they receive isn’t always 100% accurate. Because of this, I ask that each client confirm their benefits directly with their insurance provider before beginning sessions. This will help give you peace of mind about your coverage. Any amounts not covered by insurance are ultimately your responsibility.
self-pay vs insurance
Self-Pay (Out-of-Pocket)
Pros:
Confidentiality: Your therapy records are kept private, as there's no need to share information with an insurance company.
Greater Choice of Therapists: You can choose any therapist you like, including those who don’t accept insurance. This allows for options like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or Somatic Psychotherapy that may not be available through your insurance network.
Flexibility in Treatment: You and your therapist have more freedom to decide on the frequency, length, and type of therapy, including lifestyle-based care approaches, without restrictions from insurance companies.
No Diagnosis Required*: Insurance often requires a mental health diagnosis to cover therapy, but with self-pay, there's no need for a formal diagnosis if it's not necessary for treatment.
Cons:
Cost: Self-pay can be expensive, especially if you need frequent sessions. This may limit how long or how often you can attend therapy.
Insurance
Pros:
Lower Out-of-Pocket Costs: Insurance can significantly reduce the cost of therapy sessions, making it more affordable.
Wide Network Coverage: Many therapists accept insurance, and you might find qualified professionals within your network who specialize in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or other modalities.
Financial Accessibility: Using insurance may allow you to attend therapy more regularly without worrying about the cost.
Cons:
Limited Choice of Therapists: You may be restricted to therapists within your insurance network, limiting your options for therapies like Somatic Psychotherapy.
Potential for Limited Sessions: Insurance companies might cap the number of sessions or require reauthorization for continued treatment.
Diagnosis Requirement: Insurance often requires a mental health diagnosis to cover therapy, which becomes part of your medical record.
Privacy Concerns: Your treatment details may be shared with the insurance company, which could potentially affect future insurance coverage.
Insurance defines what is 'medically necessary.' This means that insurance could deny a certain diagnosis, number of sessions, and treatments, and this could be retroactive for a number of years! These 'clawbacks' would then be forwarded to you, as the insurance holder is responsible for payment to the provider.
*The caveat to non-diagnosis is if you still want to give a superbill to your insurance for reimbursement for out-of-network services. That document would require a diagnosis.