I offer 45-minute online weekly psychotherapy sessions to Women, Femmes, Queer, Gender Non-Conforming, & Trans Adults.
I also offer Supervision to new therapists looking for Somatic, Gestalt, and Creative Arts guidance or help with starting their private practices.
My fee is $250 for a 45 minute psychotherapy session.
I also offer bundles of 10 weekly sessions for $2100. That's a $400 savings.
I offer therapy slots between the hours of 8am to 3pm, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
I have some limited late afternoon and evening availability on Mondays.
1. Book your free initial consultation by clicking the orange button located on every page or send me a message at cris@creativenowtherapy.com
2. After that myself, or the intake coordinator will get in touch with you set up a free 15-minute consultation call to see if we might be a fit.
3. If you decide to move forward with me, you will be given a dedicated time slot and a HIPPA protected telehealth link to begin your weekly 45-minute telehealth or coaching sessions.
4. You will also be connected to my portal where you can view and sign our practice forms.
5. Our first session will be blend of a session and an intake to make sure forms and pertinent information is shared by both the client and therapist, and for us to get a feel for eachother.
If you would like to use insurance, I offer the advice below to help you to determine your out-of-network coverage, as I am an out-of-network provider and do not directly accept insurance. My sessions are often reimbursable (up to 70% depending on your plan).
For your protection and confidentiality, I recommend self-pay for therapy as insurance companies require disclosure of highly personal information and sometimes restrict the amount of sessions you can have. Additionally, rather than going back and forth with insurance companies all day, I focus entirely on providing the absolute most effective therapy to my clients. For these reasons, I choose not to be on insurance panels.
However, there are programs through your work or out-of-network coverage from your insurance to help you with payment. If you decide to use insurance please check your coverage for out-of-network benefits prior to our first meeting, I can also do this for you, but it requires sending your insurance card information, address, and date of birth upfront, understandably some folk are uncomfortable with this. So, I recommend that you call and ask the following questions to determine your benefits:
• Do I have out of network coverage for 45-minute psychotherapy sessions?
• What is my deductible and has it been met?
• How many sessions per year does my insurance cover?
• What is the coverage amount per therapy session for an out-of-network provider?
If approved, you pay Creative Now Therapy in full at the time of our session, and I will provide you with the documentation you need to file a claim with your insurance company.
Psychotherapy sessions meet online weekly for 45-minutes via a HIPAA-protected telehealth platform. I have recently added in-person availability at my office in the Hudson Valley, New York.
I ask that you make an ongoing weekly commitment to therapy in order to establish rapport and a strong working relationship.
You might be wondering, “how should I prepare for my first session with you?”
There is no need to prepare anything. Therapy is an exploration of the self. Let’s get to know you just as you are. If you do want to prepare, please bring art supplies and any other healing tools you'd like to be part of therapy. We’d also love to hear about what you want to get out of therapy and your ideas about what therapy is or can be.
It may also be supportive (but not necessary) to consider the following:
1. Your curiosity will be your biggest ally.
2. Staying with and reporting on your present moment experiences
3. Sharing your honest reactions to creative experiments in mindfulness, especially if you don't like how something feels or if you simply don't want to do something - often a great exploration can come from this.
4. Allowing your reactions to happen as much as you safely can
5. Some willingness to experience uncomfortable feelings
Initially it’s always best to give therapy some time, at least 5-8 sessions to see if you are a fit. This provides an opportunity to establish a working therapeutic relationship in order to safely move through a range of experiences with your therapist. This includes when you are feeling stuck, uncomfortable or even disappointed with therapy, as these experiences often mirror and/or point to a dynamic occurring in your life outside the room.
If you do find that we're a fit, I believe that exploring the duration of the therapy is a conversation unique to every client that is important and necessary to have. Some people who come to therapy, meet their personal goals, and move on in 6 months to a few years, while others come to therapy to engage in a process of self-exploration that is on-going in their lives. Sometimes people discover that their reasons for being in therapy change over time, impacting their decision to leave or continue.
Creative Now Therapy is a name I use for the blending of Somatic, Gestalt, and Creative arts therapy to generate a dynamic, holistic, and experiential therapy that focuses on your present moment experience and encourages your natural movement toward creativity, spontaneity, and growth. Sometimes "thinking" or "talking" about problems is not enough, and a deeper level of experience is needed to get to the heart of a difficult situation.
I help people connect to their inner resources by bringing attention to the way their bodies and emotions mix with their beliefs and thoughts. This helps to uncover the patterns, habits, beliefs, and blocks which contribute to stress and interfere with your satisfaction. Clients often find that this process gets to the essence of what's really happening and promotes self-awareness, esteem, and insight.
Creative Now Therapy is a name inspired by the power of the present moment and how important this place is in life and in therapy. It is a reminder for myself, to always return to it as a way to heal, be, and explore.
Somatic therapy brings attention to the experiences of your body, including sensations, emotions, feelings, and how they interface with your thoughts and beliefs to create a fuller picture of your situation. We experience life and trauma in our body, meaning that thinking or rationalizing our way through is only part of the solution, and we need to include our embodied experience in order to engage holistic healing.
We've been socialized to diminish the connection to our body and feelings, or we've needed to do this in order to avoid painful situations as child. While this was a brilliant solution at the time, as an adult this can have deep consequences including anxiety, depression, and other significant health issues. Bringing the body into the therapy situation along with our self narratives can help us the uncover beliefs and behaviors that are not in our awareness but are deeply impacting your choices.
By creating greater safety within your body you can being to support yourself in better tolerating life’s inevitable uncertainties. But more than that, you can learn to open to your immense creativity and expansiveness for a fuller life.
I believe that you can begin find a supportive environment within your own body.
Gestalt psychotherapy brings attention to your present moment experience through the therapist–client relationship, as well as including environmental and social contexts to provide a holistic approach to your healing. We will engage in real-time therapeutic experiments to deepen your awareness so you can try new behaviors and generate organic coping skills.
We'll wade through many moments together: some empowering and positive, others challenging, difficult, or dark. This will support you in expanding your ability to tolerate lifes inevitable changes and to come into integration and wholeness.
Art therapy can assist us in accessing core material that can often slip under the radar in talk therapy. Sometimes we don’t have the words to begin, or we don’t even know what or why we’re feeling the way we are. Art making and exploration activates a different part of ourselves and engages our creativity to move out of the experience of stuckness and into visualizing solutions, calming our nervous systems, becoming reacquainted with our strengths, or discovering something new about ourselves or our situation.
Creative Now Therapy is committed to creating an environment of appreciation and respect for race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical/mental ability, sexual orientation, marital or relationship/s status, care giver/parental status, and socioeconomic status. I am dedicated to providing multiculturally sensitive services that affirm the dignity, worth, and value of all.
I believe that every client comes from a different background and unique set of circumstances, and therefore I treat them as the expert of their experience. I am comfortable naming differences in the room and exploring how this might be impacting your experience in therapy and in your life.
