Fees and Frequently Asked Questions

Individual Therapy Session: $225

Couple / Family Session: $250

Executive Coaching: Reach out for pricing

While both coaching and therapy aim to improve your well-being, they focus on different aspects of your personal and professional life. Understanding the distinction can help you choose the right approach for your needs.

Therapy

Therapy is rooted in emotional healing and self-understanding. It focuses on helping you explore past experiences, uncover emotional wounds, and work through long-standing patterns that may be affecting your present. Therapy is often a deep, reflective process where the goal is to achieve emotional clarity, resolve trauma, and develop healthier coping strategies.

In addition to fostering personal growth, therapy involves diagnosing and treating mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, OCD, and trauma-related disorders. A therapist’s role is to help you understand and heal from past difficulties, address mental health concerns, and develop coping mechanisms that improve daily functioning.

Coaching

Coaching, on the other hand, is future-focused and goal-oriented. While therapy is more about healing and self-discovery, coaching is designed to help you take action and achieve specific objectives. Whether you're looking to enhance your leadership skills, improve work-life balance, or reach new career milestones, coaching provides structure, strategy, and accountability to help you accomplish your goals.

Unlike therapy, coaching does not diagnose or treat mental health disorders. Instead, it focuses on optimizing performance, refining decision-making, and helping you gain clarity in your personal and professional life. A coach works with you to identify clear goals, develop a plan of action, and push you to perform at your highest potential. It’s about overcoming obstacles, building confidence, and stepping into the next phase of your growth and success.

Key Differences

• Focus: Therapy delves into the past to understand and heal emotional wounds, while coaching is centered around future growth and achieving specific goals.

• Purpose: Therapy aims to help you resolve emotional issues and improve mental health; coaching helps you enhance performance, strengthen leadership skills, and achieve success.

• Process: Therapy is often reflective and healing, involving exploration of past experiences and emotional patterns. Coaching is action-driven, offering strategies and accountability for tangible progress toward your goals.

• Mental Health: Therapy is designed to diagnose and treat mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, OCD, and trauma-related disorders. Coaching does not address clinical mental health issues but instead focuses on personal and professional growth.

• Outcome: Therapy can lead to emotional healing, improved mental health, and greater self-understanding. Coaching leads to goal achievement, improved performance, and heightened confidence in your personal and professional life.

Whether you’re looking to heal and understand your emotional past or striving to break through barriers and achieve future success, both therapy and coaching can complement each other, but they serve distinct purposes. Choosing between the two depends on your current needs—whether you're looking to address past issues or elevate your future potential.

My goal is for you to feel lasting relief and have progress that sticks. Most of my clients start to feel better within the first few weeks of seeing me. However, initially feeling better does not mean that the work is done. You have to work on the root causes of your problems if you want long lasting relief.

I will help you deeply understand the root causes of your concerns so that your problems don’t keep resurfacing. You will know that therapy is working because you will start feeling better, noticing your patterns, and making changes. I will also continually check in with you to make sure that you’re making progress towards your goals.

I don’t want you to be in therapy for the rest of your life. My ultimate goal is to work myself out of having a job so that you can be self-sufficient. I will help you learn skills, develop new strategies for handling stress, and figure out a new rhythm so that you can start feeling better.

As a rule of thumb, the longer your problems have been happening the longer it will take you to fully feel better. There’s no definite timeline on when someone is going to feel completely better; however, you should notice early on that therapy is feeling productive and helpful. You should consider a new therapist if you feel like you are not making progress over time after repeated conversations with your current therapist.

I currently accept Aetna insurance for clients in Tennessee.

I can also provide superbills that can sometimes be reimbursed by insurance companies as out of network mental health service. If you are curious as to whether your insurance company will provide reimbursement, I encourage you to reach out to your insurance and ask them about their policy on out of network mental health coverage.

Through PSYPACT, I am authorized to provide online therapy to 41 states. The states include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.