WHAT TO EXPECT AT NORTHERN REFLECTIONS COUNSELING?

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Set up an appointment: 231.871.0019

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I offer a brief (15 min) phone consultation, free of charge, to determine if we agree you
may benefit from my services and would like to set up an appointment.

Insurance

I currently accept and will bill the following insurance companies for services:

Aetna-Cofinity              McLaren
Magellan                        United Health Plan
Meridian                        Molina
Priority Health              BCBS/BCN

If you will not be billing through an insurance company, then the following fees
apply:

Initial Intake 60 min: $120.00
50 min. session: $90.00

*For those clients who have limited financial resources, an individual payment plan and sliding fee scale may be utilized. Every effort will be made not to turn away clients due to limited resources.

First session
During our first session in therapy, there will be some paperwork to complete and I
will spend time discussing the counseling process and issues of confidentiality. I will
explain what the responsibilities regarding confidentiality are, on both the part of the
therapist and on your part, the client.

Future sessions
Next, we will talk about what brings you to counseling at this time and we will develop
a plan, together, a kind of road map. We will decide in which direction we want to go,
initially. And perhaps even more importantly, we will try to determine where we want to
end up. I believe you have to be able to visualize where you are going in order to ever
arrive!

There may occasionally be “homework” between sessions. These activities are meant
to give you an opportunity to “practice” some of the new skills you are developing or
new ways of thinking about things, outside of the session. All the magic can’t happen
within the 50 minute sessions.

At times you may feel challenged. You might be asked to focus more deeply within
yourself. You might be questioned about your attitudes and belief systems. This is
never meant to be threatening to you. It is simply to encourage you to dig deeper to try
to identify the part that you are playing in your current difficulties.

Schedule an intake: (231) 871-0019 with Chris

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