Your Questions, Answered

EFIT:

Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is a deeply relational, attachment-based approach that helps you understand why you feel the way you do—not just how to manage those feelings. Rather than focusing only on coping strategies, EFIT works at the root of emotional pain, recognizing that many struggles with anxiety, self-doubt, relationship patterns, and emotional overwhelm stem from early experiences of feeling unsafe, unseen, or alone. Through a safe and supportive therapeutic relationship, EFIT gently helps you uncover these patterns and create new, corrective emotional experiences in real time. Instead of simply talking about emotions, you learn to experience them safely, understand their meaning, and respond to yourself with compassion rather than criticism or avoidance. Over time, many clients feel more secure, more emotionally regulated, and more connected—to themselves and to others. EFIT is especially helpful if you feel stuck in repeating emotional or relationship patterns, struggle with anxiety, shame, or emotional reactivity, have a history of attachment wounds or trauma, or are seeking deeper emotional healing that goes beyond surface-level coping. This experiential work is paced carefully and respectfully, ensuring you are never pushed faster than your nervous system can handle.

Somatic Therapy:

A body-based approach to healing grounded in the understanding that trauma and stress live in the body—not just the mind. Even when you intellectually understand your past, your body may still respond with anxiety, tension, shutdown, anger, or overwhelm. Somatic therapy helps you reconnect with your body in a safe and grounded way so these patterns can begin to release. Rather than focusing only on talking, this approach gently brings awareness to physical sensations, breath, movement, posture, and the nervous system’s stress and safety responses. By learning to listen to and work with your body’s signals, you can build a deeper sense of internal safety and emotional regulation. Over time, your nervous system learns it no longer has to remain on high alert or shut down to cope. Somatic therapy can be especially helpful if you feel anxious, numb, or disconnected from your body, experience chronic stress or emotional flooding, have trauma that still feels “stuck” despite insight, or want practical tools to calm your nervous system. Clients often find they feel safer in their bodies, more secure in their relationships, and more compassionate toward themselves—not just in sessions, but in everyday life.

• 50 minute individual sessions: $150

• 50 minute partner/family session: $200

• Extended Sessions (75 minutes +) are available at an additional rate

• I reserve a select amount of sliding scale openings for clients experiencing financial hardship. Sliding scale availability is limited and offered at my discretion. 

All major credit cards are accepted. HSA/FSA are also accepted.

• Florida (Virtual ONLY):  I currently accept Aetna & Cigna insurance plans. 

• Colorado (In person & Virtual): I currently accept Aetna, Cigna & United Health Care. 

• Please note that insurance coverage varies widely between plans. Prior to starting therapy, clients are responsible for verifying:

  • Mental health/behavioral coverage

  • Copay or coinsurance amounts

  • Deductible status

  • Session limits or Preauthorization

  • Clients are also responsible for promptly notifying me of any changes to insurance coverage. If updated information is not provided and claims are denied, the client is responsible for their balance. 

• I typically work Monday-Thursday from 9:30am-5:30 pm. 

• Friday &/or weekend appointments are available by request & on a case by case basis.