After our new client consultation, you are welcome to think about or talk over our meeting and decide if you'd like to move forward.

If so, send me an email or client portal message, and I'll send you the intake documents. Those documents will be a mix of administrative paperwork, consent forms, and questionnaires about you and your relationship.

You're welcome to request an intake appointment online through the client portal after you finish your intake paperwork. I typically don't approve the intake appointment until everyone has finished their paperwork. From there, we meet for your intake assessment so that we can get started on identifying your goals, clarifying your concerns, and building a therapeutic relationship.

Every relationship is different, and each relationship has different levels of distress. Generally, I recommend meeting with me once a week for at least a few weeks in a row to allow me to get to know you and to hopefully get you some momentum toward change, and then from there either continuing once a week or reducing to every other week. If your relationship is in high distress or has some risk factors I'm concerned about, I'll let you know if I think weekly is a more appropriate fit for the immediate future.

Most couples or families I meet with work with me for six to 18 months. It's also not uncommon for couples and families to stay on my caseload at a maintenance schedule (once every month or two), or to take breaks and come back a year or two later. I've worked with some clients as long as seven years.

All of that to say, expect six to 18 months of at least every other week therapy, but know that you're welcome to stick around as long as you need.

At this time, I am only providing services online. Should I start to receive enough demand for in-person sessions in the Chicago / North Shore area, I will likely obtain office space again.

As long as you and your family members are physically in a state I am licensed in at the time of the appointment, I can see you.

I am currently licensed in Illinois, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona. I also have registered permission to provide telehealth in Idaho and South Carolina.

It can be confusing trying to figure out where your therapist can and can't provide therapy (honestly, many therapists are confused by this as well). It doesn't matter if you are a resident of the state I'm licensed in - it matters that your body is physically located in one of those states when we are doing therapy.

Possibly! Some states have temporary practice provisions that allow for a limited number of days per year of out-of-state provider treatment via telehealth. Of note, I’m not licensed in South Carolina or Idaho, but, I do have permission to practice telehealth in both states.

If you are in any of the following states, I am happy to see if there’s a possibility for me to still see you/your family/your partner, etc: Alabama, Connecticut, Colorado, Kansas, New Hampshire, South Dakota, West Virginia

Yes, there is a possibility I can work with your family if one or more of your family members are located internationally. Different countries have different requirements, regulatory oversight, or restrictions for MFTs. Feel free to contact me directly with your specific international location questions.

To my current knowledge, the following countries do not regulate MFTs / psychotherapists at this time, which means I am usually able to work with family members in these countries:

United Kingdom

Australia

To my current knowledge, I am unable to see family members who are located in the following countries, due to the regulations of MFTs or psychotherapists in these countries:

UAE

I generally meet with couples and family members together, but meeting separately for an individual session can be quite valuable.

Sometimes, a person needs to verbally describe the "rough draft" of their thoughts or feelings before addressing it in more detail in a couples or family session. Sometimes a person hasn't figured out how to be honest with their partner about something and wants my support to disclose this thing in session. Sometimes, meeting separately allows a person to talk more in depth about something that I need to know more about, but that their partner or family member tends to take personally, feel shame about, or be reactive to.

An individual session is not individual therapy (though hopefully the individual session feels therapuetic!) Everything we talk about in an individual session is meant to come back to the relational therapy process.