Common Questions
Questions before
we begin.
Friction questions, answered in my voice — not the corporate-FAQ voice. If you read this far and don’t find your question, write to me.
First steps
First steps
You’ll know in five places:
- The body.
- The framing of the work.
- Whether you’re ready to step into deeper subconscious healing.
- Whether you’re ready to move past talking and into the body, the nervous system, the soul.
- Whether you see yourself as a self-healer and me as a fellow traveler offering tools.
It depends on which door you’ve come through.
For ongoing therapy through Holistic Healing & Therapy — the first session is mostly listening. I want to hear what brought you here, what you’ve already tried, what hasn’t reached. We move slowly. The first session is about whether the room itself feels right.
For Rooted Within — if you’re coming for hypnotherapy or a deeper container outside the clinical frame — we can go in more directly. Rooted Within is for people ready for a deep dive, and the first session can be that session.
For HHT (Nevada-licensed clinical care), yes — on a small rolling waitlist I keep intentionally narrow.
For Rooted Within — sacred containers, retreats, individual sessions — availability varies by container.
Either way, the contact form is the way to reach me. I read those messages mySelf.
Logistics & cost
Logistics & cost
Yes. I’m licensed in Nevada (LCPC #CP5910) and work entirely by secure telehealth, so I can see any adult physically located in Nevada — Las Vegas, Henderson, Reno, Sparks, North Las Vegas, Carson City, and statewide. Where you live in Nevada doesn’t limit the work; your willingness to show up matters more.
HHT (Nevada-licensed clinical care): $155 for a 50-minute individual session; $177 for couples.
Rooted Within: pricing varies by container. I share it transparently in the consultation once we both know what’s being asked for.
I’m not billing insurance directly right now. I’m focused on building my private practice and Rooted Within, where the work can happen in the order your system allows rather than the order an insurance auditor expects.
I can provide you a superbill — an itemized receipt you can submit for potential out-of-network reimbursement. Many plans offer some out-of-network mental health benefit; whether yours does, and at what rate, is a one-phone-call question to your insurer.
Often, partially — many PPO plans reimburse a portion of out-of-network therapy after you submit a superbill, the itemized receipt I provide. The fastest way to find out is one call to the number on the back of your insurance card, with these five questions in hand:
- Do I have out-of-network benefits for outpatient mental health (telehealth)?
- What is my out-of-network deductible, and how much has been met?
- What percentage or amount do you reimburse per session (CPT codes 90834/90837)?
- How do I submit a superbill, and how long does reimbursement take?
- Is preauthorization required?
I provide a monthly superbill on request. I can’t tell you what a given plan will pay — that answer belongs to your insurer — but these five questions will get it for you.
It depends on what you’re tending.
Some people come for 6–12 sessions around a specific season — a transition, a grief, a stuck pattern they’re ready to move. Others stay longer, in seasons. A few do an initial arc, leave for months or years, and return when the next layer surfaces. I don’t pressure either direction.
The two arms
HHT or Rooted Within
The simplest answer is geography and frame.
HHT is licensed clinical care, Nevada residents only, via telehealth. If what’s bringing you here would be named clinically — anxiety, trauma, PTSD, depression — HHT is the door.
Rooted Within is everything outside the clinical frame: sacred containers, retreats in Panama, hypnotherapy or somatic sessions, yoga, reiki. If you’re not in Nevada, or if what you’re tending is more existential than clinical, Rooted Within is where we meet.
If you’re not sure, send a message — I’ll route you.
Generally no.
When I’m holding the clinical license with someone, the relationship needs to live inside that frame — confidentiality, treatment planning, scope. Adding a non-clinical container on top blurs the boundary. If the work later calls for retreat or container work, we’d transition you intentionally, not stack them.
Narrow exceptions exist (a closed-cohort retreat as continuing care, for instance) — discussed explicitly, with informed consent, never assumed.
The methods
The methods
No. It’s much quieter than that — and it’s something you do, not something done to you.
Clinical hypnotherapy is a guided process for accessing the layer beneath ordinary waking awareness. You stay aware the entire time. You can stop at any moment. Nothing happens that you don’t agree to.
What it lets us do is bypass the part of you that defends or explains, and reach the part that knows. For trauma, anxiety, somatic patterns, and subconscious frames that won’t shift in conversation, it can move material that talk therapy alone has circled for years.
A way of treating the inside of you as the population it actually is.
Rooted in Internal Family Systems and Parts and Memory work: you don’t have one feeling about anything important. You have several, often in conflict, each with its own history, its own protective job, its own age. The part of you that wants closeness and the part that’s terrified of being seen aren’t a contradiction to be resolved — they’re a relationship to be witnessed.
Parts work is meeting those internal parts with the same care you’d extend to people. We honor the multiplicity of the Self. Every part has a place.
Somatic work means we don’t treat your symptoms as separate from your body’s state. If your body is in a sustained survival pattern — hypervigilant, frozen, collapsed — talking about anxiety won’t reach what’s holding it. We have to address the nervous system’s settings, not just the thinking that runs on top of them.
In practice this looks like tracking sensation alongside story. Slowing when the body asks for slowing. Letting some processing happen below language. Using breath, orientation, grounding, or movement as part of the work, not in addition to it.
Fit & suitability
Fit & suitability
This is all an experiment of finding what works for us. I have different tools and modalities that may meet where you’re at now in ways earlier therapy didn’t.
A lot of talk therapy stops at the first layer — the story, the cognition, the symptom. My training stays at that layer for as long as the story is what needs to be heard, and then moves deeper — into the parts of you that hold the patterns, the body that carries them, the subconscious layer where the original adaptation was made. Most of what keeps people stuck doesn’t live in the story. It lives below it.
The consultation is where we figure out which.
No, you don’t.
There are many ways we can access spirit — including nature. If you’re open to it, we can explore. If you’re not, there are other things we can focus on until you’re ready.
Then the consultation is exactly for that.
You don’t have to bring a diagnosis. You don’t have to have language for what’s underneath. You don’t have to know whether you want therapy, coaching, a retreat, or none of the above. What I can do in 15 minutes is help you hear the shape of what you’re carrying clearly enough to choose the next door — even if that door is somewhere other than my practice.
You don’t have to know yet. You don’t have to bring an answer. Showing up for the journey is enough. It will unfold from there.
Because I’m a licensed therapist, and the ethics code I practice under prohibits soliciting testimonials from clients. The relationship in therapy carries a real power difference — a review can never be entirely free of it. So their absence here isn’t an absence of trust. It’s the ethics, working.
What I can offer instead is verifiable: my Nevada license (LCPC #CP5910) can be checked with the state board, my training is named in full on the About page, and the consultation is free — so you can evaluate the fit directly, which tells you more than any review could.
Still here?
If you read this far and
didn’t find your question —
write to me.
I read those mySelf.
A message, not a commitment. No PHI needed at this stage — just a few lines about what brought you here. A real person reads it: me.