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Individual Therapy  

We are in-network with:

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

  • Blue Cross of Idaho

  • Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska

  • Lyra Health

The rate for private pay individual 55-minute sessions is $180.

Note, if you have insurance through a different company, it may reimburse you directly for part of the cost of sessions as an out-of-network benefit. In these cases your therapist can provide you with the necessary documentation to forward to your insurance company to request this reimbursement.

Couples Counseling

Lyra Health EAP (Employee Assistance Program) will allow sessions to be used for couples counseling.

Otherwise, all couples therapy is private pay only at the rate of $190 per 55 minute session.

Why can’t I use my health insurance to cover couples therapy?

Most health insurance companies are very clear that they do not provide any benefits or coverage for marital or couples therapy.

Some therapists may be willing to bill couples therapy as “Family Therapy with Client Present,” which is assumed to mean that only one person is the client, and a family member attends to assist in the treatment of the other individual. However because of how clear insurance companies have been that the intent of this service is not to provide coverage for marital or couples therapy, I do not attempt to bill insurance for marital or couples therapy in this way.

Do you provide superbills for couples therapy, so that I can seek reimbursement from my insurance company directly?

Unfortunately no, as there are at least two possible problems with this:

  1. The superbill will say “Couples Therapy” in the service description, which is likely to trigger a denial of reimbursement. Or,

  2. Even if the insurance company ignores the service description and provides reimbursement, on the other hand it could be viewed as a violation of my contract with them to bill their members in this manner for what they believed was a covered service.

We work with adults age 18 and older via telehealth.  To see if we are accepting new clients, please visit our Contact page.