Mental Health Counseling
WHAT IS MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING?
Several of our Creative Arts Therapists also have Master’s degrees in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and provide Mental Health Counseling under supervision of an experienced LCMHC, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor. (Yes, we recognize it’s confusing! Feel free to ask us more). Because the fields of Mental Health Counseling and Creative Arts Therapies have significant overlap in addressing mental health, you may find that choosing mental health counseling is the right path for you or your child. The benefit of choosing Mental Health Counseling at The Sonatina Center is that you will receive all the wonderful skills of our clinicians in both of their areas of expertise.
Our Mental Health Counselors seamlessly integrate the creative arts into their sessions. That means, in addition to what we offer as Music and Dance/Movement Therapists (which you can read about here and here), our Mental Health Counselors can also diagnose and treat mental illnesses, administer psychological assessments, screen for suicidality, and offer psychoeducation on psychological disorders and concepts to clients and families.
INITIAL CONSULTATION
FREE
All prospective and new clients of The Sonatina Center will begin the intake process with a free, thirty (30) minute phone consultation. Our Intake Coordinator will review our process and policies with you and gather information to determine if creative arts therapy or mental health counseling in our setting may be a good fit. The phone consultation serves as an opportunity for you to ask questions about services and gain a deeper understanding of the mental health counseling process.
MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING INTAKE SESSION
$200*
Clients who wish to move forward with counseling will complete intake paperwork and schedule a 90-minute intake session with their assigned therapist. If working with children, your therapist might break this time into 1 hour in person and a 30-minute follow-up phone call. During this time, the therapist will gather information, evaluate and ask you to complete assessments and inventories at times.
Following the evaluation, therapists will complete an initial assessment, determine diagnosis, and review treatment goals with you.
Once therapy begins, your therapist will keep track of and communicate with you progress or changes to goals every 90 days or as needed. Copies of assessments, treatment plans, and other paperwork are provided upon request.
INDIVIDUAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING SESSIONS
$80 to $115/HOUR Sliding Fee*
Each provider at the Sonatina Center has a unique set of techniques and theories they draw upon when working with clients. All of our mental health counselors are dual certified in music or dance movement therapy. Your therapist can tell you more about their individual approaches and techniques during your intake session.
For children and adolescents, family sessions (with the client) or parental consultations (without the client) may be helpful in the client’s treatment. These sessions and consultations are billed at our hourly rate as needed or requested. If you have questions about billing at any time, please contact our Executive Director, Marissa Scott.
*You will notice that the rate for Mental Health Counseling Services is currently the same as the rate for Music Therapy and Dance/Movement Therapy Services. This is a discounted rate due to our counselors not yet being fully licensed. If you begin Mental Health Counseling Services, please note that rates will increase when each provider becomes licensed.
FREE INDIVIDUAL THERAPY SESSIONS for BLACK, INDIGINOUS & PEOPLE of COLOR
The Sonatina Center is committed to direct actions that bridge the gap of accessibility to services for the BIPOC community as a form of reparations. We have committed to offering free individual services to any BIPOC. Availability is current limited to 6 scholarships for individual therapy sessions and we currently have a waiting list. Please contact us for more information.
PRIVATE INSURANCE & FINANCIAL RESOURCES:
At this time, the Sonatina Center does not accept any private insurance. We do offer a Sliding Fee Discount Program to eligible individuals. Contact us for more information.
If you wish to seek reimbursement through private insurance, we are happy to provide you with a “Super Bill” each month which will include CPT codes for services and our provider numbers. You can submit these invoices to your insurance company to seek reimbursement. Please contact Marissa Scott for additional information regarding private insurance reimbursement.
If you are a Medicaid member, we encourage you to check with your local State Area Agency to inquire about Medicaid waiver programs and additional funding resources.