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Availability

I currently have availability for one-on-one sessions for individual, couples and child therapy.

I see clients in my office at Recovery Connections in San Jose, California, during normal business hours.

To schedule an appointment, please call me at 408-315-0645.

Agency Fees for My Services

  • Individual Psychotherapy (Child or Adult)
          $100.00 and up*
  • Couples and Family Counseling
          $100.00 and up*
* Fees are set on a sliding scale session dependent on gross household income. In respect of the honor system, income verification is not required. However, fees increase when income increases. Full payment is due at the beginning of each session. You may pay with cash or a personal check. Payments should be made to Recovery Connections.

Insurance

Many people rely upon their health insurance plan to provide coverage for mental health services, and that many psychotherapists accept reimbursements. For a number of reasons, the agency I work at has chosen to operate on a privately paid or "fee-for-service" basis. Of course, we can provide invoices for clients who wish to file for reimbursement.

Studies show that clients who pay privately for health services tend to be more active and invested in their well being, which makes for exciting and fulfilling work for both therapist and client. Paying out-of-pocket also gives clients maximum protection and control over their treatment and privacy because it denies managed care providers access to your personal records and confidential information on file.

Please be advised that if you are using your insurance to pay for your therapy, or any other medical reason for that matter, your insurance company has complete access to your therapy and medical records and those records and your entire health history are routinely posted on a national insurance database. There is a very real potential for this to make you ineligiable for health insurance with other companies should you ever need to change carriers. Health insurance providers are now routinely denying new healthy private pay individuals for reasons they find in this database, and those reasons are often simple things such as headaches or mild depression! When you pay for your therapy, it ensures that the insurance company cannot access any diagnoses or treatment records that could be used against you for any reason.

Please remember that managed care providers dictate how your mental health care program should proceed. It might be better if you are the only party deciding how many sessions you wish, how often you wish to schedule them, and how long you are willing to participate in therapy. All of us are aware of the reported (and, we may assume, unreported) abuses by managed care providers in this regard. I strongly believe that the retention of privacy and control is critically important and empowers you to take care of yourself, your way.





"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." Marianne Williamson









"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."
Helen Keller
(1880-1968)









"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." Emily Dickinson









"The failure to cure all diseases known to man is a failure of poltics, not human invention."
Lt. Lawrence F. Frego














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