Investing in Therapy That Actually Feels Like Care

Modern life expects you to function like a machine, heal like a saint, and never need help — unless it’s pre-approved by Chad from Claims.
This isn’t that.
This is real-deal, human-to-human care. No billing acrobatics. No corporate middlemen. Just space to finally exhale — and yes, that’s worth investing in.

🚫 Why I Don’t Work With Insurance (and What That Means for You)

I don’t skip insurance because I don’t care about accessibility. I skip it because I care too much about the quality of care.

Cash pay therapy means:

  • No diagnosis treadmill when you don’t actually need one

  • No arbitrary session limits (as if healing can be scheduled on a corporate calendar)

  • No pre-authorization circus or waiting for some admin in a cubicle to approve your pain

  • No watered-down therapy just to tick an insurance box

Instead, we build therapy around you. Your pace. Your goals. Your actual nervous system, not some productivity metric. And that means I can keep a smaller caseload and show up to our sessions grounded, curious, and actually present — not sprinting toward burnout on an insurance-fueled hamster wheel.

It’s not the right model for everyone. But if you’ve ever felt like your healing doesn’t fit in a template, this might be the breath of fresh air you didn’t know you were looking for.

🫠 It’s Not You. It’s the System.

Let’s be real: the mental health system wasn’t built for healing. It was built to patch you up just enough to get you back to work.

Insurance companies routinely:

  • Require a diagnosis even if one isn’t appropriate

  • Limit or cut off treatment just when it starts working

  • Refuse to cover somatic or trauma-informed modalities

  • Underpay therapists to the point of exhaustion and turnover

Meanwhile, you’re asked to be open and vulnerable inside a system that barely knows your name.
So if therapy has felt cold, rushed, or weirdly transactional in the past — yeah, that tracks.

🔧 What You’re Really Paying For

When you pay out of pocket, you’re not just buying a session — you’re buying care that centers your actual humanity.

What that looks like:

  • A collaborative pace that works with your nervous system, not against it

  • A therapist who’s not dissociating mid-session because their caseload is 40 people deep

  • Real-deal trauma-informed tools: Somatic Experiencing, IFS, relational work, nervous system repair

  • A relationship that grows over time, not a 12-session Band-Aid

This isn’t luxury therapy. It’s therapy that says: you don’t need to perform to be supported. You just get to be human here.

The Practical Details

  • Session rate: $200 for a 55-minute session

  • Frequency: Most clients meet weekly or biweekly — we’ll decide what feels most sustainable together

  • Insurance: I’m out-of-network with all providers. However, many clients use OON benefits for partial reimbursement. I provide monthly superbills and use Mentaya to help check your benefits easily.

Healing That Sticks

Burnout is expensive. So is chronic self-abandonment.
This is therapy that helps you recalibrate your nervous system, rewrite old scripts, and actually feel like yourself again — not just survive the week.