Frequently Asked Questions
How much do session's cost?
Rates for David Ha, LMFT
Individual Sessions:
$125 (50-55 minutes)
Couple's and Family Sessions:
$150 (50-55 minutes)
Rates for Addie Shepherd, LPCA
Individual Sessions:
$100 (50-55 minutes)
Couple's and Family Sessions:
$115 (50-55 minutes)
*Rates subject to change
**Limited sliding scale rates available
Individual Sessions:
$125 (50-55 minutes)
Couple's and Family Sessions:
$150 (50-55 minutes)
Rates for Addie Shepherd, LPCA
Individual Sessions:
$100 (50-55 minutes)
Couple's and Family Sessions:
$115 (50-55 minutes)
*Rates subject to change
**Limited sliding scale rates available
do you take insurance?
Counseling at Cornerstone currently does not accept insurance. If you are out-of-network, Counseling at Cornerstone can provide a receipt of services rendered.
WHAT CAN I EXPECT?
This can be simplified into 3 stages:
1) The intake: this is the first session where my goal is to develop a clear understanding of your needs, as well as gather relevant information from you in order to help you reach your goals.
2) A treatment plan is created by the therapist, in collaboration with the client. This process is a lot more fluid than you might imagine and can be in flux dependent on different needs that may arise. My goal in creating a treatment plan is to ensure that there is a general blueprint of how you can accomplish your goals with evidence based treatments/interventions. It ensures professional integrity.
3) The main phase of counseling includes building rapport, and integrating various interventions which can include processing emotions, examining negative belief/thinking patterns, psycho-education, creating healthy behaviors, examining attachment/childhood influences, etc.
1) The intake: this is the first session where my goal is to develop a clear understanding of your needs, as well as gather relevant information from you in order to help you reach your goals.
2) A treatment plan is created by the therapist, in collaboration with the client. This process is a lot more fluid than you might imagine and can be in flux dependent on different needs that may arise. My goal in creating a treatment plan is to ensure that there is a general blueprint of how you can accomplish your goals with evidence based treatments/interventions. It ensures professional integrity.
3) The main phase of counseling includes building rapport, and integrating various interventions which can include processing emotions, examining negative belief/thinking patterns, psycho-education, creating healthy behaviors, examining attachment/childhood influences, etc.
DO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST'S SEE INDIVIDUALS?
There is a common misconception that licensed marriage and family therapist's (LMFT's) only specialize in couples/family counseling. The same misconception exists for licensed professional counselor's (LPC's), that they only specialize in individual counseling. The truth is that every counselor is created differently. One of the main differences of LMFT's and LPC's may lie in their approach as LMFT's tend to view things systemically whereas LPC's tend not to.
LMFT's are trained and equipped to see individual's, couple's and families. In my professional experience, I have seen effective change in working with children, individuals, couples, and families.
LMFT's are trained and equipped to see individual's, couple's and families. In my professional experience, I have seen effective change in working with children, individuals, couples, and families.
How can i make the best out of counseling?
Counseling is a collaborative process. Although the counselor has been through significant training and has a certain expertise, clients should be ready to work. That involves coming into sessions with their set of agendas. The client is in the driver's seat of counseling in a sense. Yes, the counselor may have the road map of where sessions must go (while sometimes that roadmap is figured out during the journey counseling collaboratively) but my approach is never to be overly directive in giving you the directions of where to go. It may seem contradictory at first but I believe evidence points to the highest level of effectiveness taking place when individuals learn how to navigate and find out their own roadmap. The role of counselors then is to ask the right questions through reflection that lead the client, it is sometimes to give tools, or other times to validate the challenging path towards healing, or to respectfully challenge clients to reassess how they may process something so that they can reprocess unhealthy narratives, or other times to mirror the client through questioning to raise self-awareness.