The Whys & Hows of Therapy

Participation in therapy can result in a number of benefits to you, including improving interpersonal relationships and resolution of the specific concerns that led you to seek therapy. Working toward these benefits, however requires effort. Psychotherapy requires your very active involvement, honesty, and openness in order to change your thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors. During evaluation and therapy, remembering or talking about unpleasant events, feelings, or thoughts can result in you experiencing considerable discomfort or strong feelings of anger, sadness, worry, fear, etc., or experiencing anxiety, depression, insomnia, etc. Ms. Stewart may challenge some of your assumptions or perceptions or propose different ways of looking at, thinking about, or handling situations, which can cause you to feel very upset, angry, depressed, challenged, or disappointed. Attempting to resolve issues that brought you to therapy in the first place, such as personal or interpersonal relationships, may result in changes that were not originally intended. Psychotherapy may result in decisions about changing behaviors, employment, substance use, schooling, housing, or relationships. Sometimes a decision that is positive for one family member is viewed quite negatively by another family member. Change will sometimes be easy and swift, but more often it will be slow and can even be frustrating at times. There is no guarantee that psychotherapy will yield positive or intended results. During the course of therapy, Ms. Stewart is likely to draw on various psychological approaches according, in part, to the problem that is being treated and her assessment of what will best benefit you. These approaches include, but are not limited to, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, cognitive, psychodynamic, existential, system/family, developmental (adult, child, family), humanistic or psycho-educational. Ms. Stewart provides neither custody evaluation recommendation nor medication or prescription recommendation nor legal advice, as these activities do not fall within her scope of practice.

Fees

Each session is $110 and is a 50 minute session. There is a 24 hour cancellation policy in place so that someone else may use a time slot if you are not able to make your appointment.

Forms

Clinical History & Evaluation

Informed Consent

HIPPA Notice of Privacy

Hyperlinks to forms coming soon……