Systemic Therapy:
My expertise is in breaking the cycles that no matter how many different ways you’ve attempted to solve it, the problem keeps coming back. This is the application of general systems theory behind Marriage and Family Therapy to all problems that exist within a patterned cycle. (Not to mention that these processes are fundamental across all stable systems, from celestial bodies to microbiomes, and is now applied to human interaction)
Fees are currently a flat $150.00 for all Individual, Couple, and Family sessions using a Systemic Diagnosis. Sessions are at least an hour, and very often if I have time to give, I am known to give it.
About Insurance:
I cannot accept insurance for Couples Therapy.
However, I can now accept insurance for individuals in a limited scope.
Please note limitations for accepting insurance:
– Therapy has to treat an Individual DSM5 Diagnosis in order to medically necessitate service
– Insurance covered sessions are only credentialed to be Remote (Online)
– These slots are limited to Monday
Note also that your insurance might provide Out-Of-Network Coverage if I provide a superbill. A systemic diagnosis is the cycle itself and not an individual, therefore insurance typically does not consider couples therapy medically necessary.
Unfortunately, insurance for Marriage and Family Therapists is complicated.
Continue below to find out why, and schedule using insurance.
Systemic Framework Presentation:
Are you a leader within an organization who is tired of seeing good people leave because of work environment? Would you like to optimize work flow through gaining insights that help families flourish?
I’ll come to you and give a presentation on the fundamental processes of systemic thinking, offering your group a completely different perception of how people, problems, and change makes sense, while also offering tailor made insights on how to optimize outcomes for patterned problems within the workplace. This presentation also comes with a built in Q&A to discuss pertinent questions and useful applications of the content discussed.
Fees for this service is the going rate of $150.00 per hour, including travel, presentation, and the Q/A. Call (610) 984-5730 to schedule.
Consultation:
I like it when things make sense. This is my most comprehensive consultation designed to lay the groundwork of systemic thinking so that you can actually make sense of the problem. Insight does not guarantee change, but sometimes the consultation puts me out of a job before I have one. A word of caution… it’s long, but you’ve got to watch through to the end to make sense of everything!
Watch, Pause, and Replay at your own pace!
Marriage and Family Therapists (MFT) hold a different lens of people, problems, and change than traditional psychotherapy. This evidence-based and context dependent perspective notes your symptoms as the result of being stuck in a larger cyclical process. Therefore, a Systemic diagnosis of a problem can objectively offer hope for change by acknowledging the homeostatic process as the problem, and not just one individual’s thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. This also unfortunately means that insurance would not typically consider a Systemic diagnosis as medically necessary.
However, I’m now doing my best to walk a fine line of Ethics, knowing there is always a complicated history associated with our current thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, while still reconciling with the Medical necessity of someone’s current neurology being stuck in a pattern of relating without proper intervention. Although limited, this allows me to give back to some who genuinely cannot afford the service without compromising the Ethics of care.
The good news is that systemic therapy tends to be incredibly helpful for people who’ve felt stuck for a very long time. This is possible by understanding objective patterns that exist within all our neurology for good reason.
There is a diagnostic code for problematic relationships (Z-63.0 among others). However, insurance typically does not consider relationship problems medically necessary. Every insurance company is different, so You should call them and ask if they’ll cover a Z63 diagnosis.
Some therapists will attempt to cover Couples Therapy using insurance by giving one of you an individual DSM5 diagnosis, then convince insurance that meeting as a couple is medically necessary in their submitted notes. However, after watching my Consultation video you understand how giving one of you a diagnosis would not make sense when considering the context and impact you both have on the other. Therefore, I avoid insurance fraud by not giving one of you a DSM5 diagnosis that I professionally disagree with to have your insurance cover the cost. In our intimate relationships, if one of you lose, you both lose.
I hold hope for the day when a systemic diagnosis will be covered by insurance as our culture endeavors to resolve problems rather than symptoms. For now I’ll continue to put myself out of a job using a genuine belief that’s backed by literature and evidence-based practice, that shows how your brain is working as intended when considering the holistic context in which you’ve survived. Thankfully I can do that without labels or insurance fraud.