Therapy in Miami and Online in Florida
Process, Rates & Insurance
Therapy Rates
Please inquire about Therapy Rates below or at (305) 998-2665
Insurance
The Heard Counseling is Out of Network
At this time, The Heard Counseling therapists do not work directly with insurance companies (see below for details about why).
Why don’t we bill insurance directly?
Reason #1 Why We Don’t Take Insurance | It Doesn’t Allow for Therapy to Be Confidential
Insurance companies often require that your personal files or information is disclosed to a 3rd party insurance or technology company. This can increase the risk that your information is accessible to others or leaked. It is also possible that in the future if your job requires a federal background check that the mental health diagnosis that you received in therapy can be released because your insurance company had that information. We find success in therapy is founded on the importance of confidentiality and safety, and often insurance can not offer that.
Reason #2 Why We Don’t Take Insurance | You Have to Receive a Mental Health Diagnosis
Many times clients that we see do not have a mental health diagnosis, that means a medical diagnosis that is in the DSM- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Such things that are not in there are relationship problems and issues after postpartum. In order to get coverage with your insurance you have to have a mental health disorder in the DSM. Even if you don’t have a mental health diagnosis, it is required in order to get coverage. We don’t agree with this policy at all and wish that everyone could get access to mental health services through their insurance.
Reason #3 Why We Don’t Take Insurance | We Can be More Attentive & Effective
Taking insurance requires hours and hours of reviewing paperwork, imputing reports and data, which would take up most of our time. Since we do not take insurance, time that would of have been spent on insurance goes to offering quality care to you. This means that we continue to receive training to offer the best quality of care, read the latest research, connect with resources and respond to you in a time sensitive manner. This allows us to be a top quality provider. We know this is frustrating and we wish things were different. This is why we are so passionate about health reform on a systemic and national level.
Reason #4 Why We Don’t Take Insurance | Insurance Decides What Help You Need
Insurance companies decide how many session you receive and how often. Even if you feel you still need help after their allotted and approved treatment sessions, they might not approve you for more. This can be very dis-empowering for clients, leaving them in a crisis mid treatment. We think it is really important for our clients to decide what is best for them, with the support of their therapist.
Together with your therapist you get to decide on your treatment and not a system that knows nothing about you personally. You are not a number but a individual with unique needs and desires. If something changes in your life, like the loss of a loved one, we can shift our focus to grief counseling without requesting and waiting for approval.
The Investment of Therapy
Therapy is an investment. It an investment of your time, an investment of your finances. It takes a lot to change and finding the right resources, such as the right therapist with specialized training and years of schooling, requires an investment.
We wish things were different, we wish health care covered these costs for mental health services and allowed mental health practitioners to get reimbursed a reasonable wage, but we are not there in the United States. We need more health care reform.
The Online Therapy Process
1.
First Steps
This includes, selecting your service package, scheduling your initial consultation and receiving initial paperwork to be filled out.
2.
Initial Consultation
Prior to this, paperwork must be submitted, deposit must be received. We review any questions and standard procedures. We get to know each other, hear your present concerns and develop a plan for treatment.
3.
Therapy Sessions
Collaboratively, with the treatment plan as our guide, we will begin to unravel the problem and co-develop useful solutions.
4.
Feedback & Closing Session
The final session. We review the meaningful change from this process. We reflect on what has been helpful & how you will continue to implement our co-developed solutions.
Therapy Packages
Supportive Package
WHO IS THIS FOR:
For individuals or couples that want to briefly connect and discuss their challenges. This might be helpful for those who have minor issues or have brief questions. You might want to process an issue, concern that you believe might only take one session. You might have minor anxiety and just want to get a professional’s thoughts. It might be for someone with an issue that has just arisen and would not be considered a crisis or a major problem.
THE BENEFITS
Share your experience with a professional, in a brief therapeutic setting.
Receive feedback in session and briefly discuss strategies or solutions for the issue.
Often, it can be beneficial to share an experience with a non-family member or friend. We do not provide “standard advice” like a friend or family might. We offer thoughtful feedback and questions, allowing you to process and generate solutions to your problem.
We often will ask, “what would you like to accomplish in this brief time together?” “What needs to happen today for you to see this as helpful?”
WHAT IT INCLUDES:
60 minute Therapeutic Session
We review any questions and standard procedures. We get to know each other, hear your present concerns and develop a plan for the session.
Collaboratively, with the idea of what you would like to get out of the one session, we will begin to unravel the problem and co-develop useful solutions.
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Comprehensive Package
WHO IS THIS FOR:
This is for individuals, couples, families that are not in a crisis but finding themselves dealing with a problem that has been around for a while, or dealing with something that has just occurred but is likely to persist. It might be a couple that is struggling to deal with adjusting to parenting or in-laws, an individual that is dealing with anxiety or wanting to process a particular event. It might be a mother noticing a few symptoms of postpartum depression or an individual dealing with grief.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS:
This allows us the time to create a treatment plan and action plan to support you through the issue you are facing. It is brief enough so that you don’t feel like you need the constant, long standing support, but extensive enough that you can address the root cause of issues and begin to see changes outside the therapeutic room.
WHAT IT INCLUDES:
THREE x 60 minute Therapeutic Sessions
We review any questions and standard procedures. We get to know each other, hear your present concerns and develop a plan for treatment.
In the first session we will first address any essential needs. After addressing that we can begin to discuss the issue deeper. We will look at patterns of behavior, the meanings around the problems, the impact of the problem, the systems at place that are allow for the problem to take place. We will address the impact this problem is having on you and briefly look at your family dynamics.
Sometimes this will overflow in the second session as well. In the second session we might continue to elaborate on what was discussed in the first session and transition our focus to finding solutions and co-constructing change.
Third session, we continue unraveling and developing the new strategies and solutions and address how the solutions are working or not working in real life.
60 minute Therapeutic Feedback & Reflection Session
Here we review progress and changes. We talk about what is working, what still needs work and the plan on what to do if the problem or pattern of behavior arises again.
Extensive Package
WHO IS THIS FOR:
This is for individuals, couples, families that are in a crisis or are dealing with a longstanding or severe issue. It also might be for clients who need that extra support during a life transition, such as welcoming a new baby, dealing with the loss of a family member. It might be a couple that is stuck in a rut, not feeling connected and have not for a very long time. It might be for an individual that has been managing anxiety for long time or has severe symptoms such as reoccurring panic attacks.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS:
This allows us the time to address patterns of behavior that have been deeply established and that have strong lasting affects- such as severe symptoms. Nothing changes overnight, but this allows us the time to work through your experience around the problem, the impact your family of origin might have on this issue and the meanings and messages we receive around this issue. We are able to walk through the treatment plan and action plan to support you through the issue you are facing. Support is extensive that you can address the root cause of issues and begin to see changes outside the therapeutic room and reflect on how those changes are taking place and what is the impact of those changes.
WHAT IT INCLUDES:
5 x 60 minute Therapeutic Sessions
In the first one to three sessions we will first address you essential needs if you are in crisis. What is it that you need right in this moment to keep you safe, secure and okay. What do you need in order to leave this session safe, for the session to be helpful.
From there we will get to know the issue deeper. We will look at patterns of behavior, the meanings around the problems, the impact of the problem, the systems at place that are allow for the problem to take place. We will address the impact this problem is having on you and briefly look at your family dynamics. We will spend more time looking at the influence different family members have on the issue and looking at your family of origin and how those dynamics impact your present problem.
Around the third session we transition into focusing mainly on new strategies and solutions to the problem. This may be concrete strategies or it might be focusing on gaining new understanding around a problem.
In the fourth and fifth session we often find that our extensive package clients discuss the problem arising again or in different ways. We process that and see how we can readjust our treatment plan.
60 minute Therapeutic Feedback & Reflection Session
Here we review progress and changes. We talk about what is working, what still needs work and the plan on what to do if the problem or pattern of behavior arises again.