Frequently asked questions

I offer 53-minute individual therapy sessions for $185 per session. Couples sessions are $250 per 85-minute session. Limited scholarship slots are available for those in most need. Applications provided upon request. Those with proof of financial need get priority for scholarship slots.

Weekly or bi-weekly therapy is recommended to start for optimal effectiveness. Different frequencies are right for different people and we will figure out what’s best together.

The progress of therapy is often slow and steady rather than a few instances of radical transformation. As such, I recommend that you consider the cost of therapy from a longer-term lens. Clients can expect to pay around $3,000-$7,000 for a full year of therapy depending on frequency of sessions.

I work with adults who want to understand themselves more deeply and create meaningful change in how they relate to themselves, their bodies, and the people around them.

Many of the people I work with are navigating trauma or complex trauma, chronic shame, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, sexuality, grief, or a persistent sense of feeling disconnected from themselves.

I particularly enjoy working with people who understand their patterns intellectually but still feel stuck in them. My approach is especially suited to people interested in moving beyond insight alone and working more directly with emotions, the nervous system, relationships, and the body.

My practice is queer-affirming, kink-aware, polyamory/non-monogamy inclusive, and sex-positive.

You don’t need to know before reaching out.

I offer a free 20-minute consultation so we can talk about what brings you to therapy, what you’re looking for, and whether my approach seems appropriate for what you need.

If our fit feels promising after our consult call, we can set up a 53-minute Initial Session and get a better sense of each other.

Good therapeutic fit matters. I want you to have a therapist with whom you feel comfortable enough to be honest, curious, challenged, and genuinely yourself.

Currently I provide psychotherapy both via telehealth and in-person. I have different time slots depending on whether we meet online or in-person.

My office is in central Boulder, CO

I currently accept Medicaid and private pay. I do not bill private insurance directly.

This is an intentional choice. Private insurance can involve unpredictable claim denials, delayed payments, changing reimbursement rules, and even clawbacks, where an insurer takes back payment for a session after it has already been provided and approved. These administrative uncertainties can make it difficult to run a small practice sustainably and can also create unnecessary complexity around treatment.

Private pay allows me to keep the financial relationship simpler and spend more of my time focused on clinical work rather than insurance administration.

If your insurance plan includes out-of-network mental health benefits, I can provide you with a superbill that you can submit to your insurance company for possible reimbursement. The amount reimbursed varies by plan, so I recommend checking your out-of-network benefits directly with your insurer before beginning therapy.

I keep a limited number of reduced-fee openings for clients with financial need.

Availability varies. If my standard rate would make therapy inaccessible, feel free to ask about current reduced-fee options.

My ongoing psychotherapy practice is primarily for clients located in Colorado, where I am licensed as a Professional Counselor.

Some educational or consultation services are different from psychotherapy and may be available to people outside Colorado. If you’re unsure which type of service applies to what you’re looking for, reach out and I can help clarify the options.

Somatic therapy pays attention not only to what you think about an experience, but also to what happens in your body while you experience it.

That might include noticing tension, numbness, impulses to move, changes in breathing, emotions, posture, or the subtle ways your nervous system responds during a session.

The goal isn’t to stop thinking. It’s to help your thoughts, emotions, body, and nervous system begin communicating with one another again.

Learn more about Somatic Trauma Therapy

There is still plenty of talking.

The difference is that rather than spending the entire session analyzing what happened, I may occasionally invite you to slow down and notice what is happening inside you right now.

We might work with bodily sensations, emotions, movement, imagery, mindfulness, grounding, or different internal “parts.”

We move gradually. Somatic trauma therapy is not about pushing you into overwhelming experiences or forcing emotional catharsis.

Trauma therapy does not require you to describe every traumatic event in detail or become overwhelmed in order to heal.

In fact, a major part of trauma-informed therapy is developing enough safety, choice, awareness, and nervous-system capacity that difficult material can be approached without simply recreating the original experience.

You remain in control of what we explore and how quickly we explore it.

Parts work starts from the idea that all of us contain different internal perspectives, emotions, impulses, and protective strategies.

One part of you might desperately want connection while another keeps people at a distance. One part may criticize you relentlessly while another feels young, frightened, or ashamed.

Instead of trying to eliminate these conflicting parts, we become curious about why they developed and what they have been trying to accomplish.

Over time, this can create more compassion, flexibility, and internal cooperation.

Learn more about Parts Work

Not at all.

Somatic approaches can be useful for trauma, but I also use them with anxiety, shame, relationship patterns, difficulty identifying emotions, sexual concerns, chronic stress, grief, and people who simply feel disconnected from their bodies.

You also do not need to identify what happened to you as “trauma” in order for us to work together.

Almost anything.

Clients come to me with concerns involving sexual shame, difficulty staying present during sex, mismatched desire, performance anxiety, difficulty identifying what they want, sexual trauma, changes in arousal, kink, non-monogamy, religious sexual shame, relationship conflict, and questions about sexual or relational identity.

You will not be expected to justify consensual desires simply because they fall outside conventional norms. My focus is on helping you meet your own goals, not pathologizing what you desire.

My psychotherapy practice does not involve sexual contact between therapist and client.

Somatic sex therapy means we bring awareness to the body, nervous system, emotions, boundaries, desires, and embodied experience of intimacy. Depending on what we are working on, I may also suggest exercises that you can explore privately or with a partner outside the therapy room.

Polyamory-inclusive couples therapy is probably less different from traditional couples therapy than you might think.

Many of the same issues that arise in monogamous relationships also show up in polyamorous ones: communication difficulties, attachment patterns, conflict, disconnection, mismatched needs, trust, intimacy, and repairing hurt.

The biggest difference is that polyamory-inclusive therapy does not assume that exclusivity is necessary for a relationship to be healthy, committed, or secure.

There are also some relationship dynamics that may need to be understood differently depending on the structure of the relationship. That can include jealousy, boundary setting, communication, relationship agreements, and how time, energy, and attention are allocated between partners.

We can also look at the larger relationship system. Even if only two partners are in the therapy room, other partners and relationships may meaningfully affect what is happening between them.

The goal is not to steer you toward monogamy or non-monogamy. It is to help you build relationships that are consensual, sustainable, honest, and aligned with the people actually involved.

Kink-aware therapy begins without assuming that an interest in BDSM, power exchange, fetish, dominance, submission, or other forms of consensual sexuality is evidence that something is psychologically wrong.

That distinction matters.

If kink is part of what you enjoy, therapy does not automatically become an investigation into what trauma supposedly “caused” it or how to make the desire disappear.

Instead, we can focus on the issue that actually brought you in. That might be shame about your desires, difficulty communicating them to a partner, navigating consent or boundaries, differences in desire, integrating kink into a relationship, understanding the emotional meaning of a particular dynamic, or figuring out whether something genuinely feels healthy for you.

Sometimes a sexual interest does intersect with trauma, attachment, shame, or other psychological patterns. Kink-aware therapy gives us room to explore those connections when they are actually present without beginning from the assumption that kink itself is the pathology.

Sex-positive therapy does not mean that every sexual choice is automatically healthy or that boundaries, risks, and consequences do not matter.

It means that consensual sexuality is approached with curiosity rather than automatic shame or moral judgment.

We can look honestly at whether a sexual pattern is working for you, whether it feels compulsive or chosen, whether consent is clear, whether your relationships feel sustainable, and whether your sexual life reflects what you actually want.

The question is less, “Is this normal?” and more, “What does this mean for you, and is it helping you create the kind of sexual and relational life you want?”