Commonly Asked Questions
What are your rates and Fees?
Individual
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Initial Session: $150 (60 min)
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Session: $110 (45 min)
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Focused Session: $60​ (30 min)
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Couples
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Session: $135 (60 min)
(Fee for service only)
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Appointments not cancelled within 24 hours will be charged for the missed time at the full amount or the discretion of the clinician.
What Insurance do you accept?
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BlueCross and BlueShield
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United Healthcare
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Optum
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Tufts (commercial Plan)
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Harvard Pilgrim
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Student Health Resources​​​
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Neighborhood Health (commercial plan)
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PLEASE NOTE: Couples counseling is fee for service only.
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You are responsible for copays, deductibles, and any other cost not covered by insurance.
What are the rates and fees for working with an intern clinician?
Individual
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Session: $50 (60 min)
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Focused Session: $35​ (30 min)
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Couples
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Session: $60 (1 Hour)
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Appointments not cancelled within 24 hours will be charged for the missed time.
What Insurance do Interns accept?
None​​
Interns are therapists in training, operate under the license of their supervisor and are unable to file insurance claims. Rates are set with this aspect in mind.
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Each case is reviewed by the supervisory clinician, Todd Schmenk, LMHC.
What is Process Based Therapy (PBT)?
PBT is not a new therapy to add to the list of 500, but rather a new way of conceptualizing therapy that veers away from the medical illness model.
PBT addresses the bio-psycho-social context of the client, is flexible and dynamic, and encourages the therapist to bring their training, background, and strengths into the treatment room.
This approach empowers therapists and clients to build on what they already know works, disrupt systems don't, and apply effective treatment kernels to change the underlying mechanisms that keep a person stuck.
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)?
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a cognitive-behavioral therapy that aims to foster psychological flexibility through increasing acceptance, defusion, present moment awareness, self-as-context, committed action, and values clarification.
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In the ACT model, psychological flexibility is defined as contacting the present moment fully as a conscious human being and persisting or changing behavior in the service of chosen values utilizing experiential exercises, metaphors, exposures, and skills training.
It uses empirically sound methods to test procedures and evaluate predetermined outcomes and it advocates focusing on processes over presentation.