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Home Ecology Therapy & Lifestyle-Based Care

I help clients untangle the connection between their emotional world and their physical surroundings through lifestyle-based care, drawing on principles from environmental psychology, human ecology, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Together, we explore rhythms, routines, spaces, habits, and environments that either nourish or drain your wellbeing. The goal is to create a daily life that feels calmer, clearer, and more congruent with who you are becoming. Home Ecology Therapy draws from Systems Theory and merges Environmental Psychology with principles of modern home economics, exploring how your physical spaces impact stress levels, identity, nervous system patterns, and emotional safety.

One-on-one sessions are tailored to your emotional needs, lived experiences, and daily challenges. I create a grounded, nonjudgmental space where you can explore your inner landscape while also understanding how your outer life — home, habits, relationships, responsibilities — shapes your stress, identity, and functioning, often integrating elements of Somatic Psychotherapy.

Special Populations of Interest:

- Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs)

- Intuitives and deep feelers

- Women navigating identity transitions

- Adults with chronic illness or chronic stress

- Individuals overwhelmed by clutter, home demands, or lifestyle disorganization

- Burned-out caregivers and helpers (including mental health therapists)

- Clients interested in Swedish Death Cleaning as emotional processing.

Swedish Death Cleaning?

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What are my favorite therapy modalities?

Lifestyle-Based Behavioral Therapy (LBBT) emphasizes how daily habits, routines, and environments impact emotional wellbeing. We examine factors such as sleep, morning and evening rhythms (chronobiology), sensory load, nourishment, movement, and home patterns to create behavioral shifts that foster regulation, clarity, and overall functioning.
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.
Experiential Therapy invites exploration of emotions through action rather than dialogue alone. Activities like mindful cooking or nourishing rituals, gardening, nature walks, 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, especially during home-based or lifestyle-focused interventions.
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. This approach is particularly beneficial during transitions, homemaking identity work, and Swedish Death Cleaning processes.
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, clutter, routine, stress, and transitions, allowing us to tailor your environment and habits to support regulation. We explore how your nervous system interacts with your surroundings, ensuring your home serves as a stabilizing force rather than an additional stressor.

Therapy Services

Kansas and Oregon residents only. Sessions, which focus on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and lifestyle-based care, 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). Somatic Psychotherapy services are also available.

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Individual Session Self-Pay Rate

$130

Insurance can be confusing, and while my billing service does its best to check your coverage, the information they receive isn’t always accurate. Because of this, I ask that each client confirm their benefits directly with their insurance provider before beginning sessions, especially if you are seeking Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or Somatic Psychotherapy as part of your lifestyle-based care. 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

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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.