FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • I currently only provide virtual therapy sessions. I will update if I ever decide to offer in-person sessions.

  • Yes! I accept insurance through Headway.

    Aetna, Cigna, United Healthcare/Optum, Oscar, Oxford, Regence, and Premera

  • Yep! I offer a 15-minute phone consultation, which gives you a chance to see if we’ll be a fit for each other. We’ll briefly go over why you’re looking to get started (or restarted) with therapy, how I practice therapy with my clients, and answer any questions you might have!

    You can reach out to me here.

  • While I typically encourage my clients to meet weekly for the first 2-3 months to build on our therapeutic relationship and to keep the therapy work going, I will accommodate your schedule and preference as much as possible.

    Sessions are usually 50-55 minutes depending on preference and clinical need.

  • Our initial session is an “intake” session, which will look very different from our ongoing therapy sessions. The intake usually takes 60 minutes.

    In the intake, I will typically want to get a better sense as to what you’re coming to therapy for and gather more info about your background and history in order to get a better picture of you as a whole. Think of it like we’re sketching a general outline of who you are and the general scenery.

  • We’ll continue to build our therapeutic relationship and start to fill in more details into the general sketch we started in the initial consultation. We may start narrowing on the general goal for therapy, introduce some modalities that we may use in our work together, and even learn some tools in the process.

  • It depends. I offer short-term and long-term therapy. Some clients only need a few sessions (2-5 sessions) or a short period of time (3-6 months) to work through a specific situation. Other clients and their goals may require longer term therapy, which may last at least 1 year or more. At the end of the day, although I may provide recommendations to the duration of treatment, you ultimately have the say to determine when you may be done with therapy.

  • I only provide therapy in English. Although I speak Mandarin, I do not feel confident enough to provide therapy in Mandarin at this time.