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Frequently Asked Questions

What are your fees?

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Individual sessions = $200

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Fees are based on a standard 50-minute "hour."

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PLEASE NOTE THAT JENNIFER DOES NOT ACCEPT INSURANCE OF ANY KIND

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I am also in compliance with and will furnish a Good Faith Estimate upon request, as required by The No Surprises Act (H.R. 133). See below for details.

What is the No Surprises Act (H.R. 133)?
According to a new law, The No Surprises Act (H.R. 133), beginning January 1, 2022, all healthcare providers and facilities must provide consumers with a "Good Faith Estimate" of "expected charges for services and items offered to uninsured and self-pay consumers." Basically, the State believes you are too stupid to do simple math and I must do it for you. So, let this notice serve as an indication of my offer to provide you with what you're legally entitled to in this regard, however if you're really curious, here's the rubric:

"I, Jennifer S Bailey, LMFT, anticipate your treatment will require weekly, 50-minute psychotherapy sessions throughout the next 12 months (conducted either in my office, or via telehealth online), at a rate of (insert our agreed-to-fee here) per session for a total of 52 weeks. Depending upon unforeseen factors (such as sick days, vacation & scheduling conflicts, as well as the possibility of renegotiating treatment to bi-monthly sessions or needing extra sessions upon your request), you may need/receive less sessions, somewhere between 15 - 60. At (insert rate per session), the estimated total RANGE of costs are between (15 x negotiated rate) & (60 x negotiated rate). In some extreme cases, your diagnosis or symptomatology may be better managed with temporarily INCREASING your weekly sessions to 2x per week. This will be determined as/if needed on a case-by-case basis, to be implemented for a limited amount of time to address acute symptomatology (e.g., depression, suicidality). No matter how unlikely that option may be for you, the possibility for an acute emergency exists for everyone, so a possible maximum spread taking this into consideration would be (15 x negotiated rate) to (104 x negotiated rate) as a TOTAL RANGE OF EXPECTED COSTS FOR SESSIONS ALONE. 

This Good Faith Estimate will be revisited yearly, as required by law, & as we renegotiate session frequency, or in the event my rate is increased to reflect normal industry standards due to inflation. This also does not include separate, but related items or additional costs that may arise during the course of standard treatment with me, such as recommended books/therapeutic materials, check-return fees, doctor/psychiatrist appointments, medical evaluations, workshops, group therapy, anger management, recommended couples therapy, psychotropic medication, IEPs, psych assessments, etc.."

What are your specializations?

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Jennifer specializes in working with adults struggling with the following disorders or issues:

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  • Anxiety, Fears, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

  • Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families ACA

  • Borderline Personality Disorder (both clients themselves & their families, including adult children raised by a BPD parent)

  • Childhood Trauma

  • Codependent "CoDA" Behaviors

  • Creative Blocks/Working in the Entertainment Industry

  • Grief/Loss

  • Peer Relationships

  • Perfectionism, Self-Criticism

  • Personality Disorders

  • Relationship Issues

  • Stress

  • Therapist Preparation

  • Toxic Relationships

  • Trauma, C-PTSD, PTSD

  • Women in Transition

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How Do You Work?

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In therapy, you take a journey into yourself. I serve as a guide, pointing out areas of interest, highlighting new perspectives and helping you make your own choices along the way. I help carry the burden until you are strong enough to carry it yourself or discover that there is no burden left.

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Our early relationships help define us, but if these experiences were painful, whom can we trust? I specialize in working with personality-disordered clients and clients from difficult, abusive, or critical backgrounds, and help them to discover themselves beyond their anxiety, anger, perfectionism, codependent or overwhelming relationships.

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I have been trained in, and utilize, many theoretical orientations in treatment according to individual client need and presentation (e.g.: Cognitive Behavioral, Gestalt, Family Systems, etc.), however, my main theoretical orientation can be described primarily as Psychodynamic, encompassing both Adlerian and Object-Relations Therapy. This orientation is known as "insight-oriented therapy."

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General goals for therapy include developing a clients self-awareness and understanding into past patterns, unresolved conflicts, coping mechanisms and how relationship dynamics influence present actions and reactions. As William Shakespeare once wrote, "past is prologue," so too, are we influenced by our early childhood experiences. It should be noted that this type of therapy is not a digging through to find the "why"--as why's are seldom helpful, and blame is never a goal--but more about revealing the "how's." For once we see the underpinnings of our behavior, ignorance is dissolved and we become aware. No longer blind to the processes behind our behaviors, this self-awareness gives us choice, and opens up options for different behavior. It is for this reason that insight is a key objective in Psychodynamic therapy: Once we've seen how the sausage is made--so to speak--we are less inclined to move backwards in our development. Aware of how the past influences our present, we are free to make more informed choices for our future. We move from reactive to active. 

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