Services and Pricing for Counseling

Life Care Counseling services focus on long term mental and social health. A counselor is different than other medical professionals in that you often see them more often and longer. This is because counseling seeks heal injuries that can not always been seen and have often been building up over time.

Do We Take Insurance?

I would love to say that we do take insurance but we do not accept insurance plans at this time. Unfortunately, the way insurance claims are handled add time and conflict of interests on the part of the clinician. It has been well documented in the mental health community the barriers often in place for mental health providers to deter payment and several lawsuits have occurred for this reason. The ethical, legal, and lack of control that come with accepting insurance has been why we do not accept any insurances. 

We do provide "superbills" which can be turned into your insurance and applied to your appropriate benefits. Most insurances allow this but you would need to check with your specific insurance to see if they take "superbills" for out of network payment and how they process them. If we do provide a superbill, we will need to provide a mental health diagnosis for the document.

Why is burn out happening for so many counselors?

This is the same as any other professional field. There has been a surge in need for mental health and counselors have generally started to work more to compensate. If counselors work with insurance, they often get reimbursed at low rates that causes the need to take on more clients to earn a livable wage. 

Clinicians that accept private pay only, often see less clients to manage burn out and allow more time for training and skill development. This also allows more time for self-care, which helps counselors perform better in session. Just like a well rested athlete competes better, so too does a counselor that has a smaller caseload.