Your Questions Answered

Most therapy treats symptoms as problems to eliminate. But your symptoms can't be removed like tumors. When we try to simply get rid of them without understanding their purpose, they resurface in new forms. It's like trying to turn off a lightbulb by blowing on it.

This work takes a different path. Your symptoms aren't enemies to defeat but messages from the deeper parts of your mind. When you speak freely about whatever comes to mind, you begin to understand what your mind has been trying to tell you all along. Sessions end at breakthrough moments rather than by the clock, and I listen for the patterns in your speech that reveal what you truly want beneath what you think you should want.

This work takes patience and courage, and can lead to profound changes. Symptoms often do resolve, sometimes dramatically, but not through direct attack. They dissolve when you work through the hidden inner conflicts they were expressing. Unlike quick fixes, this changes your fundamental relationship to yourself and your desires.

You speak freely about whatever comes to mind: dreams, memories, daily concerns, or seemingly random thoughts. Together, we attend to patterns, repetitions, contradictions, and the places where your words reveal more than you intended. There's no agenda or exercises. I might offer interpretations that open new avenues, but the real work happens through your own process of speaking and understanding. Sessions end when something essential has emerged, not by the clock.

This work operates through speech and language. The deeper parts of your mind reveal themselves through slips of the tongue, dreams, and the relationship between us regardless of medium. The essential elements remain fully intact online: speaking freely, careful listening, and the structure of our work together.

Many people find online work allows deep engagement with added flexibility. Some even speak more freely from their own space. Physical presence isn't essential when the work happens through language itself.

Yes, I am an in-network provider with many major insurance plans including:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Optum (including UnitedHealthcare, Oscar, Oxford, UMR, and others)
• Aetna (including their Signature Administrators like Meritain, Nippon, Allied, Trustmark)
• Quest Behavioral Health
• Point32Health (Harvard Pilgrim and Tufts Health Plan)

I do not accept MassHealth plans. For complete details about which specific plans I accept, please see the insurance information on the homepage or contact me to verify your coverage.

If I'm not in-network with your insurance, you have two options:

• Out-of-network benefits: I can provide superbills for you to submit to your insurance for potential reimbursement
• Self-pay: The fee is $200 per session

Many people find that investing directly in their therapeutic work deepens their commitment to the process.

I require 48-hour notice for cancellations. Sessions cancelled with less than 48 hours notice will be charged the full session fee. Insurance typically does not cover missed sessions, so these would be your responsibility to pay directly.

This policy helps maintain the consistency and commitment necessary for deep therapeutic work.

There's no standard duration. Some work lasts months, others years. The process concludes when repetitive patterns that brought you here have shifted into new possibilities. You'll sense when sufficient transformation has occurred.

This isn't about meeting external criteria but recognizing a fundamental change in how you experience yourself and your world. The work continues as long as it remains alive and productive for you.

Frequency varies based on what serves your process. Most meet weekly as a baseline, though some periods benefit from more intensive work while others call for spacing. We determine this together, following what the material demands rather than rigid rules.

This work suits those who can tolerate not receiving immediate answers, who are curious about their unconscious, and who sense deeper transformation is possible. If you need immediate symptom relief or concrete solutions, other approaches may serve you better.

Good candidates often feel they're stuck in a repeating cycle, "living someone else's life," or sense their symptoms carry hidden meaning. Most people who benefit from this work have a strong sense that they're ready for something different. They recognize that surface-level changes aren't enough anymore. The consultation helps us explore whether this approach aligns with what you're seeking.

Most people who work with me have tried other approaches without lasting success. Many forms of therapy stay on the surface, focusing on coping strategies or symptom management. If you've felt like previous therapists didn't really understand what was driving your patterns, or if changes didn't stick, that's actually a good sign that you might benefit from this deeper approach.

The fact that other methods haven't worked suggests your unconscious has been trying to tell you something that surface-level interventions can't address. This work is specifically designed for people who need to go deeper than conventional therapy allows.

I work with people, not diagnoses. Whatever brings you here - relationship patterns, anxiety, depression, creative blocks, existential questions - what matters is your willingness to explore your unconscious. The form your suffering takes is less important than your curiosity about what it might mean.

The consultation lets you speak about what brings you and allows us both to experience how we might work together. This isn't an intake or evaluation. It's a real encounter where you can speak freely while we explore whether this approach fits your needs.

By the end, we'll both sense whether this approach fits your needs. The consultation stands alone with no obligation to continue.