If you’re overwhelmed, not feeling like yourself, confused about a personal situation, or experiencing anxiety or depression, these are all things therapy can help with.

Getting started is simple. Click on the “book now” button at the top and schedule a first meeting with me.

Clients find themselves comfortable with me and feel they can share things without judgement. I also welcome your sense of humor, as I do believe it can be healing.

Email is going to be the best way to contact me. During the day, I’m working with folks and like everyone else, I’m receiving 100 spam calls a day. I do not save your number in my phone for privacy, so I wouldn’t know you called. My email is: hello@huckleberrymentawellness.com

I’m working through the credentialing and contracting process with many insurances. Those include: Premera, First Choice, Kaiser, Regence, Cigna, and Aetna. Please reach out and I can check out insurance coverage to see what your out-of-pocket cost might be. Currently, without insurance or if you deductible applies first, my initial session is $200 and ongoing 53-minute sessions are $160.

You can checkout the “fees/ insurance” page to read more.

Collaborative, empathetic, and accepting.

These terms are used interchangeably and for simplicity, you can keep doing that. You can read more at the link below, but I can help with a variety of issues. My goal as a mental health counselor is for you to feel you no longer need me. Sometimes this is achieved in a few sessions or a few years and sometimes you return to counseling. It’s all normal and part of your individual process.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/therapy/psychologist-vs-therapist-vs-counselor

Here are some reasons I would refer you to different care:

• active suicidial or homicidal ideation - please call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.

• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

• unmanaged Bipolar Disorder

• evaluation for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)

• Medication management

• Currently struggling with addiction.

• You don’t have any goals, it’s hard to help if we both don’t know what you are looking for.

Like many areas, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is showing up and therapy is not unique in that. Therapy alone can be more useful as the clinician is going to get to know you and your history. A therapist is going to gently tell you when you are in the wrong. So far, AI isn’t able to provide the same experience.

Also, there’s a push in the therapy world to use AI tools. I am not and will not be using any AI tools in my clinical work. I have not found these tools to be particularly helpful in the therapeutic process. If you are interested in using AI tools in therapy with me, we can talk about it, but it’s nothing something I’m well-versed in.