Rates
LMFT's
$150 per session -individuals and couples (couples therapy is private pay only)
LMFTA's (available September 2025)
Clinical Interns (available August 2025)
$40 per session - individuals and couples
$150 per session -individuals and couples (couples therapy is private pay only)
LMFTA's (available September 2025)
Clinical Interns (available August 2025)
$40 per session - individuals and couples
Insurances
Blue Cross Blue Shield AL
New Directions Behavioral Health
If you have an insurance plan that we don't accept, we're happy to provide you with a superbill to submit for potential reimbursement.
New Directions Behavioral Health
If you have an insurance plan that we don't accept, we're happy to provide you with a superbill to submit for potential reimbursement.
Using Your Insurance Benefits for Therapy
Under mental health parity laws, insurers must provide equitable coverage for physical and mental health conditions. This means your insurer will cover the treatment of a mental health condition similar to a physical health condition (according to the terms of your specific plan) as long as it falls within the parameters they set re: medical necessity and delivery of services.
Individual Therapy
In order to use your insurance benefits for individual therapy, you must meet full criteria for a mental health diagnosis that your insurer considers medically necessary to treat (such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Substance Use Disorder, etc.). You are considered the “identified patient” and treatment is focused on managing, improving, or resolving your mental health condition(s). If your diagnosis and/or treatment do not fall within the parameters set by your insurer, or you do not meet the criteria for any diagnosis, your services may not be covered.
Couples Therapy
Because the insurance model is set up for the medical care of individuals, services focused on improving a relationship (i.e. couples therapy) are not covered as there is no "identified patient" whose medical condition is being treated.
In couples therapy, the relationship is considered the "patient", and both partners (along with the therapist) work together to help the "patient" get better. Both partners' backgrounds, perspectives, and needs are accounted for in the work, and each holds privilege re: treatment participation and records. This is different than when a loved one attends a therapy session or sessions in support of the treatment of another individual's mental health diagnosis (i.e. family therapy). To bill for couple’s therapy in that way would be inaccurate and could even be considered fraudulent.
Individual Therapy
In order to use your insurance benefits for individual therapy, you must meet full criteria for a mental health diagnosis that your insurer considers medically necessary to treat (such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Substance Use Disorder, etc.). You are considered the “identified patient” and treatment is focused on managing, improving, or resolving your mental health condition(s). If your diagnosis and/or treatment do not fall within the parameters set by your insurer, or you do not meet the criteria for any diagnosis, your services may not be covered.
Couples Therapy
Because the insurance model is set up for the medical care of individuals, services focused on improving a relationship (i.e. couples therapy) are not covered as there is no "identified patient" whose medical condition is being treated.
In couples therapy, the relationship is considered the "patient", and both partners (along with the therapist) work together to help the "patient" get better. Both partners' backgrounds, perspectives, and needs are accounted for in the work, and each holds privilege re: treatment participation and records. This is different than when a loved one attends a therapy session or sessions in support of the treatment of another individual's mental health diagnosis (i.e. family therapy). To bill for couple’s therapy in that way would be inaccurate and could even be considered fraudulent.