Services & Pricing

Licensed Professional Counselor Rates

• $160.00 for a 60-minute session

• $120.00 for a 45-minute session

• $80.00 for a 30-minute session

Resident In Counseling Rates

• $ 75.00 for a 60-minute session

• $ 65.00 for a 45-minute session

• $ 45.00 for a 30-minute session

I reserve the right to periodically adjust this fee and you will be notified of any fee adjustment in advance. In addition, this fee may be adjusted by contract with insurance companies, managed care organizations, or other third-party payers. From time-to-time, I may engage in telephone contact with client for purposes other than scheduling sessions. The client is responsible for payment of the agreed upon fee (on a pro rata basis) for any telephone calls longer than ten minutes. In addition, from time-to-time, I may engage in telephone contact with third parties at client’s request and with client’s advance written authorization. Clients are expected to pay for services at the time services are rendered. Cash, checks, credit cards and contracted insurance companies are accepted. 

Insurance

If your health insurance will pay part of my fee, I will help you with your insurance claim forms. However, please keep two things in mind:

1. I had no role in deciding what your insurance covers. Your employer decided which, if any, services will be covered and how much you have to pay. You are responsible for checking your insurance coverage, deductibles, payment rates, copayments, and so forth. Your insurance contract is between you and your company; it is not between me and the insurance company.

2. You—not your insurance company or any other person or company—are responsible for paying the fees we agree upon. If you ask me to bill a separated spouse, a relative, or an insurance company, and I do not receive payment on time, I will then expect this payment from you.

If you belong to a health maintenance organization (HMO) or preferred provider organization (PPO), or have another kind of health insurance with managed care, decisions about what kind of care you need and how much of it you can receive will be reviewed by the plan. The plan has rules, limits, and procedures that we should discuss. Please bring your health insurance plan’s description of services to one of our early meetings, so that we can talk about it and decide what to do.

I will provide information about you to your insurance company only with your informed and written consent. I may send this information by mail or by fax. My office will try its best to maintain the privacy of your records. You should be aware that insurance agreements require you to authorize me to provide clinical diagnosis, and sometimes a treatment plan or summary or in rare cases a copy of the entire record. This will become part of the insurance company files. Insurance companies claim to keep this information confidential but I have no control over what the insurance company does with that information.  

Currently I am paneled with the following insurance companies, but am continuing to the process with several others. If you do not see your insurance please contact me and we can work together to make sure my services are covered:

• Aetna

• Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield

• Beacon Health Strategies

• Cigna

• Humana (Tricare)

• Magellan Health Services

• Optima Health Plan

• Value Options (Military One Source)

• Virginia Premier

If you are unable to keep the designated appointment time previously scheduled, it is your responsibility to inform me 24 hours in advance. If your I am not contacted to cancel the appointment with 24 hours advanced notice, a NO SHOW FEE of $60.00 will be charged automatically for the missed appointment.

If your account is more than 60 days in overdue and payment has not been agreed upon, I have the option of using legal means to secure payment, including collection agencies or small claims court. If such legal action is necessary, the costs of bringing the proceeding will be included in the claim. In most cases, the only information which I release about a client’s treatment would be the client’s name, the nature of the service provided and the amount due.