At this time, I have chosen not to accept insurance. When psychologists work with insurance companies, insurance companies often significantly limit the number of hours an assessment can take and may not approve the assessment if they disagree with the need for assessment. Insurances also routine deny assessment for some developmental concerns such as ADHD, dyslexia, and giftedness/twice-exceptionality that benefit from assessment. Over time, I found that insurance denied assessment for many children who needed it, and then limited the hours for others to an extent that it would be almost impossible to complete the type of comprehensive assessment needed to answer these complex questions. This resulted in significant frustration for families. As a result, I have set up my business to be a direct-pay model, with a standard fee for different types of assessments based on the typical number of hours it takes to complete that type of assessment. This ensures that families understand what they will get from the process, and how much that process will cost, from the beginning. By not taking insurance, decisions about your health and the length of your services or your child’s services remain between you and me, and any other professional involved in your care.

Additionally, working with insurance is costly to psychologists. Psychologists who take insurance generally take more clients than those who do not in order to meet the costs of running a practice. Working with insurance is also time-consuming and psychologists do not get paid for this time. This leads to needing even more clients to ensure that the practice can meet financial obligations, and can create a frustrating cycle for both client and psychologist in which psychologists are over-worked and client’s do not get the individual time and attention that they need. My goal is to ensure that each of my client’s receives the best services possible at the lowest cost, and eliminating a complex, time-consuming, and often unpredictable health system from these services helps me to be able to do that.

You can choose to bill your own insurance through the out-of-network benefits, although I cannot guarantee coverage. At the end of an assessment, I will provide you with a superbill that you can submit to your insurance.

Current clients can pay for an appointment through their TherapyNotes client portal.

Yes! This is a great option to pay for mental health services and you are welcome to use this.

Consultation services are $130 per hour. The cost of these services is due 24 hours before your session and you can pay by logging into your online portal here.

Fees for evaluations are a bit more complicated. The evaluation measures are chosen mainly based upon your child’s age, language level, and clinical questions. Also included in the time for evaluations is time for an intake, feedback, scoring your child’s measures, and for me to write a detailed report for you to share with others.

Here’s how the average assessment breaks down:

1. Intake - 1.5 hours

2. Assessment time with your child - Between 3 and 6 hours

3. Scoring your child’s measures - 1 to 3 hours

4. Feedback - 1 to 2 hours

5. Report writing - 3 to 6 hours

This means that a typical assessment can take anywhere from 10 to 20 hours. Unfortunately, it is difficult for me to know where within this range your child will fall, making it difficult for me to give you an estimate of your child’s cost. When charging hourly, this also puts pressure on everyone involved (me, your child, you) to use as little time as necessary to keep costs down, which can impact your child’s care. For example, if a child is uncooperative during testing, a parent may become frustrated with the child as the testing will take longer, or a psychologist may be reluctant to add a measure because it will increase cost.

As a result of these concerns, I have chosen to use a flat-rate model for evaluations and assessment. This means that I can tell you exactly what your child’s assessment services will cost before we start the evaluation and will provide you with a Good Faith Estimate summarizing this.

1. All evaluation intakes are $250. At the end of the intake, I will share my recommendations about evaluation for your child and what the evaluation fee will be. This lets you make an informed choice about services for your child with all of the necessary information. This amount is credited towards the assessment cost below.

2. Comprehensive Evaluation services are priced as listed below. Included in the evaluation services is the psychological assessment completed with your child, my time to interpret these results and write a detailed report, a feedback session with you, a feedback session directly with your child if you and I decide they would benefit from this, and a one-hour consultation a month later to see how your child is doing and to ensure that you do not have questions about the report or recommendations. I can also attend your child’s case conference virtually if you would like and if I am included in the scheduling.

   Early Childhood Autism Assessment (2 - 4 years old) - $2,000

   Child to Adolescent Autism Assessment (5 - 15 years old) - $2,500

   Older Adolescent/ Young Adult Autism Assessment (16-25 years old)- $3,000

   Cognitive and Learning Assessment (5 - 25 years old)- $2,500. This includes referral concerns such as Dyslexia, ADHD, Intellectual Developmental Disorder, Twice-exceptional Gifted Students

   Gifted and Talented Assessment for School or Program Admission (3-17 years old)- $1,500

   Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE)- $3000 - $3500 depending on complexity of case and measures needed.

3. Assessment fees must be paid in full 24 hours prior to the scheduled testing session.

Consultation clients: Once you are established on my schedule, it is important that you or your child attend sessions regularly as this helps to ensure that your child is making good progress. If you need to reschedule your child’s appointment, you can do so without any cost to you up until 24 hours before the appointment. If you do not cancel or reschedule at least 24 hours in advanced, I will charge a $50 fee for the missed appointment. If your family misses three or more appointments in a year without letting me know 24 hours in advance, I will refer you to other services in order to be able to effectively serve as many children as possible.

I also understand that life happens. I have children at my house who get sick, I get sick, and there are car problems, family emergencies, and unexpected circumstances. For this reason, each family in the consultation program gets one “life happens” pass per year. When children get sick or family emergencies come up, I want you to be able to attend to those without worrying about the financial cost of missing a session.

As a reminder, parent sessions can almost always be switched to telehealth if this would prevent you from missing the session (e.g., child was sent home from school sick and you are now home caring for them, car trouble), and this can be done up until your appointment time via email.

Evaluation clients: It is extremely important that your child come to their assessment appointment. These appointments take up large blocks of my schedule and having clients miss these frequently has a significant impact on the financial security of my practice. As a result, there will be a $100 fee if the intake or feedback appointments are missed. If your child misses an evaluation appointment, there will be a $200 fee. Schedule changes can be made up to 48 hours before your scheduled appointment to avoid these costs.

Even for major commitments, I recognize that life happens. Please let me know if there are extenuating circumstances (e.g., child wakes up sick, major family emergency) so that we can talk about the best option to reschedule. Please DO NOT bring your child for an assessment if they have significant illness (e.g., vomiting, fever) as this can impact the validity of the testing results and we would have to cancel and reschedule the appointment.

While living in Indiana, I was a foster parent for six years and developed a deep passion for working with foster children and their families and support systems. I also saw firsthand the limited healthcare resources these children have access to, often after being on an extended waitlist. As a result, my practice has a foster child assessment and consultation scholarship process. This includes a limited number of assessment and consultation cases per year discounted at 50% of the typical cost. The only requirements are that the child is between 2 and 17 years old, and be placed in a licensed Texas foster home on the day of assessment.