Starting Therapy: a Guide to give you clarity about the Fees and Services Offered
Understanding the Fees & Services Offered helps you make informed decisions about the RIGHT FIT in THERAPY.
It's my top priority, that you fully understand what therapy services I offer, inclusive of the fees and approaches.
Therefore, I've created this page to outline the details.
Therapist Fit is a Priority to Feeling Connected, Understood, and having success in THERAPY!
Shelley’s Areas of Expertise
Anxiety & Stress Across the Life Span
Grief, Life Transitions, & Aging
Perfectionism & Getting Unstuck in Cycles of Dysfunction
Supporting Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)
Trauma Healing
Eating Disorders Treatment & Disordered Eating across the life span
Feeding & eating differences related to neurodivergence, ARFID, and picky eating
Emotion Focused Family Therapy
Caregiver & P Parent Support
Addiction related concerns inclusive of food addiction
Neurodiverse Affirming Therapy (Autism & ADhD are
supported)
DBT informed therapy for emotion regulation and eating disorders
** Psychotherapy Modalities most often used are integrated based on your presenting concerns. FBT (Family Based Treatment for Eating Disorders) CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), DBT, Mindfulness & Self-Compassion, Emotion Focused Therapy (EFFT).
Seeking out therapy is an investment in yourself and all areas of your life including your family.
Therapy: An Investment In You
Benefits of a social worker: Assessment and treatment focus on both your needs, and the systematic factors that contribute to your anxiety and stress. Potentially you thrive at work, and identify you are struggling with your friendships, and intimate relationships.
Relationship Connections: Helping you repair the disconnection in safe ways to those you care about and want to be close to. Tweaking the areas of your life that cause stress and trigger anxiety, to help you feel relief.
Financial: If you are thinking about how therapy involves financial expense, you are right, it's an investment. Therapy takes time, commitment, and effort to implement changes.
Small Changes: Although, it doesn't need to feel overwhelming, by focusing on small steps of change, leading to a feeling relief, it increases hope & motivation to continue with the improvements.
Preparing for first session: There are ways in which you can make the most use of your time with a social worker or therapist. You can read about what to expect in therapy as a general summary here.
Understanding how these Services Can Help You!
Individual Counseling
Family Counselling- EFFT
Self-Help Courses
Seeking out support can be scary, and intimidating when others perceive you as being disconnected, distant, and overwhelmed on your best days.
This can be exhausting, and unfulfilling. You may even be dreaming of wanting to feel better, and unsure how to reach that desire. You are ready to change the roller coaster patterns in your life, and you want to be able to focus on what brings you joy in life. You can feel fulfilled, less alone, and more in control of your life.
You are ready to get off the roller coaster of intense stress, ups and downs, and be able to focus on what brings you joy in life. You have found the right place to start by engaging in research validated techniques, focused on mind-body approaches.
If you find yourself having repeated arguments with your partner, or your children you may even wake up in the middle of the night finding yourself ruminating about where your relationship failed. You feel alone and you want a better relationship, unsure how to magically change it, then you are in the right place! Keep reading.....
Family counselling can help to rebuild that lost connection by understanding what led to this place of despair, and disconnection.
Next by building manageable communication skills, it contributes to increasing the trust you have with each other. This foundation for your relationship, leads to a path of having what you ultimately want, a feeling of being connected & loved.
This can give you a renewed sense of hope.
You've recognized a change is needed, and you are unsure how to take steps to make those changes.
If counselling has helped you to, feel less alone, and gain more control of your life by learning specific coping strategies in the past you can connect to courses offered here.
Learning new strategies provides a sense of "not being alone in this experience," as well as problem solving about what you CAN DO to move through the changes you desire and deserve in your life.
Courses provide an affordable option for counselling services.
Fees & Service Details
Individual Counselling & Psychotherapy Sessions
*Inclusive of Individual Eating Disorder Sessions*
This is a 50 minute session provided by a registered social worker and can be submitted to your insurance benefits provider for reimbursement. Cost: $225
Sliding scale/reduced fee sessions are offered. If required, please inquire about this service.
Extended sessions are offered. If interested, inquire with Shelley to discuss options.
Eating Disorders Treatment for Child/Adolescent and FBT Family Sessions
50 Minute Initial Family Session - $250 OR 80 Minutes Session - $350 - Initial Family Assessment. This treatment is for parents and a child/teen who are concerned about a child/teen/adult child who is experiencing Eating Disorder related concerns (restricting intake, weight loss, purging, binging behaviors). Structure of session begins with therapist meeting with the individual alone for 10-15 minutes, then a family session for 30-45 minutes, then 15-30 minutes alone with parents for support.
50 Minutes Session - $250 - Follow-up Family Based Treatment. Structure of session begins with therapist meeting with the individual alone for 10-15 minutes, then family session for 30-45 minutes, then 15-30 minutes alone with parents if needed.
EFFT Family Counselling Session or Couples Session
Relationship focused counselling can be beneficial to family members or couples who are looking to strengthen their emotional connection, improve communication, and reduce conflict more effectively in all stages of their relationship. This includes folks who are struggling to communicate or co-parent following a separation.
Parent(s) attend these sessions for support in how to talk to and support their child regardless of age, when eating disorder treatment has stopped or not worked as expected. Initial & Follow-Up Family & Couples Counselling Sessions
50 Minute Sessions: $250. This session is ideal for a follow-up check-in on the status of practicing new communication or connection building skills, after an initial counseling session has been attended.
Insurance Benefits & Coverage
**These services listed, can be submitted for reimbursement with your benefits provider company, at their discretion for reimbursement. Please be aware that all fees are due at the time of service. Confirm that your insurance benefits cover an RSW, or Registered Social Worker.
Making the Most of Your Therapy Experience
Feeling like it’s a good fit?
Online scheduling offered here. Click the link below to schedule your first session with Shelley.