Frequently Asked Questions

Cost of investment per session
90-minute intake session $175
60-minute individual session $150
60-minute couple session $160
90-minute couple session $225

Intensive Premium Services (not covered by insurance)
Premarital Intensives (Prepare/Enrich): 4 hours

Cost of Investment: 4-hour session $800
(includes couple’s assessment and workbook)

EMDR Intensives

1 Day (8 hours), 2 Day (11 hours) or 3 Day (14 hours)
Cost of Investment: 1 Day Intensive - $2000
2 Day Intensive - $2750
3 Day Intensive - $3500

Do you accept insurance?
I now accept Aetna (MO, KS and TX), Cigna (MO, KS and TX), Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City.  

Depending on your current health insurance provider or employee benefit plan, it is possible for services to be covered in full or in part. Please contact your insurance carrier to verify how your plan compensates you for psychotherapy services. We’d recommend asking these questions to your insurance carrier to help determine your benefits:  
• Does my health insurance plan include mental health benefits?  
• Do I have a deductible? If so, what is it and have I met it yet?  
• Does my plan limit how many sessions per calendar year I can have? If so, what is the limit?  
• Do I need written approval from my primary care physician for services to be covered?

Things to keep in mind: 
1. Insurance companies typically require a diagnosis code to be billed or reimbursed. Clinicians can assign a diagnostic code to your billing - however - great care will be taken to make sure a client is diagnosed correctly and cautiously.   

2. Insurance companies typically only cover a certain number of Behavioral Health visits at a reduced rate. Depending on the client's insurance plan - Behavioral Health - may not be covered at all, or if you have a high deductible plan, you may still be paying standard rates until your deductible and out of pocket maximum is met.   

3. When therapists bill through insurance, the insurance companies have direct access to billing and documentation for the client's record. Confidentiality is held in the highest regard and tries to protect against others seeing your record, as much as possible.

What is the cancellation policy?
If you are unable to attend a session, please cancel at least 24 hours in advance. Otherwise, you will be charged for the full session rate.

Intensive cancellations
50% non-refundable deposit and full fee is due if canceled within 96 hours of Intensive Day 1.
50% non-refundable deposit and a $600 cancellation fee is due if canceled within 48 hours of Intensive Day 1.
Emergency Policies: In the event a client is unable to attend due to accident or illness. The intensive can be rescheduled with two months based on availability. The 50% non-refundable & cancellation fee can be applied toward the rescheduled.

You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your medical care will cost.
Under the law, health care providers need to give patients who don’t have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the bill for medical items and services.
• You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency items or services. This includes related costs like medical tests, prescription drugs, equipment, and hospital fees.
• Make sure your health care provider gives you a Good Faith Estimate in writing at least one business day before your medical service or item. You can also ask your health care provider, and any other provider you choose for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule an item or service.
• If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill.
• Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate.

For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit 
www.cms.gov/nosurprises or call 816.623.2521.