Getting Started | Free 20-Minute Phone Consultation

I offer a courtesy 15 to 20 minute telephone consultation so that you can determine whether (a.) I am the right fit for you personally, and (b.) whether I can offer therapies and interventions that address your needs. In this 20-minute consult, please be prepared with any questions you have about the therapeutic process, and feel free to give me a low resolution description about the reasons you are seeking help. Book here to schedule your 20 minute telephone consultation.

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Fees and Pricing Rationale | BC, Canada

Couples Therapies

50-Minute Couples Sessions are: $142.50 (before tax), and $149.62 (after tax).

90-Minute Couples Sessions are: $256.50 (before tax), and $270.00 (after tax).

45-Minute Partner Sessions are: $128.25 (before tax), and $135.00 (after tax). (Used in Second Session Only).

Pricing Rationale

Average Pricing for Couples Therapy in BC is between $2.72 per minute and $3.50 per minute at an average of $3.11 per minute. For couples, I charge in the lower range of $2.85 per minute.

About 90-minute Sessions: Standard practice is to conduct 50-minute sessions and spend the remaining 10 minutes on notes. For couples wanting a more indepth experience, I also offer 90-minute sessions, and spend 30 minutes (after each session) logging insights and designing between-session activities tailored to each client’s needs.

I offer 90-minute sessions as they are in-depth, memorable, effective for addressing emergent situations, and sufficient for completing structured interventions.

By lengthening sessions to 90-minutes, and massing sessions (bunching them closer together in the first month), I create a more effective schedule of therapy than infrequent and longer enduring schedules (once every two weeks) ongoing.

Visit desktop site, or see below, for Massing and Fading Schedules.

Individual Therapies

50-Minute Individual Sessions are: $123.50 (before tax) and $129.67 (after tax).

90-Minute Individual Sessions are: $222.30 (before tax) and $233.40 (after tax).

Pricing Rationale

Average Pricing for Individual Therapy in BC is between $2.40 per minute and $3.00 per minute, at an average of $2.70 per minute or $162.00 for 60 minutes.

For individuals seeking breakup trauma therapy, I charge in the lower range at $2.47 per minute.

I offer ninety-minute and fifty-minute in-person sessions of Lifespan Integration Therapy for individuals seeking relief from breakup trauma and/or betrayal trauma. Depending on the depth of the trauma, clients can experience a notable difference in their thoughts and emotions toward the traumatic event in as little as two one hour sessions.

For more on fees, please read the BCACC's 2021 Fee Schedule.

Dr. John Gottman

"As a therapist,

it is my job to

make myself

obsolete."

Massing and Fading | 90- Minute Schedules for Couples

Generally speaking, massing therapy at the beginning of treatment, and fading out as symptoms reduce is an effective approach to scheduling treatment.

Below is an outline for effective frequency using the 90-minute session. The timed structure of the session is different for every couple as everyone brings their own individual concerns to therapy and unfolds their experience at a different pace. The timed structure of the therapy noted below is NOT SET IN STONE, and is intended only as a guideline. Other variables that could affect this schedule include affordability, scheduling conflicts, and each couple's varying need for therapy such as each partner's need for trauma therapy alongside couples counselling. On that note, for some, treatment will be significantly shorter than for others.

First Week | Assessment Begins

Session One (Assessment)

5 minutes: Welcome: Informed Consent/Policy Review

15 minutes: Couple’s Narrative

50 minutes: Oral History Interview

15 minutes: Conflict Sample

5 minutes: Closing/Check In