Counseling can be beneficial whether you’re experiencing emotional distress, navigating a particular challenge, or seeking greater self-awareness, meaning, and personal growth.

You don’t need to be in crisis or have a mental health diagnosis to benefit from counseling. Sometimes, the desire to better understand yourself, your relationships, your experiences, or your direction in life is reason enough to begin.

Yes. I offer a complimentary 15-minute consultation for prospective clients.

This brief conversation provides an opportunity to share what you’re seeking support for, ask questions about my services and approach, and explore whether working together may be a good fit.

The consultation is not a counseling session and does not establish a therapeutic relationship.

Your initial intake session is an opportunity for us to begin exploring what brings you to counseling, your current concerns, relevant history, and what you hope to gain from our work together.

We’ll discuss your needs, strengths, goals, and preferences while beginning to develop a thoughtful and individualized path forward.

There is no expectation that you share everything at once. We will move at a pace that respects your comfort, readiness, and individual circumstances.

Initial intake sessions are 90 minutes.

Counseling typically begins with weekly sessions to support continuity, build a therapeutic relationship, and establish momentum.

As our work progresses, we can collaboratively evaluate whether a different frequency, such as biweekly sessions, is appropriate.

The overall duration of counseling varies. Some individuals benefit from shorter-term support focused on a particular concern, while others choose longer-term work involving trauma recovery, relational patterns, identity, or personal development.

We’ll revisit your goals and progress throughout our work together.

Earthrise Counseling provides individual online counseling for adults ages 18 and older.

I welcome individuals from diverse backgrounds, identities, cultures, and life experiences.

In addition to serving the general adult population, I have a particular interest in supporting veterans and military professionals, astronauts and space-industry professionals, high performers, artists, entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals, and individuals navigating complex personal or professional transitions.

Each person’s experiences, values, and needs are unique, and counseling is tailored accordingly.

What concerns can counseling help with?

I work with adults navigating a range of psychological, emotional, and existential concerns, including:

• Trauma and PTSD
• Anxiety and depression
• Grief and loss
• Chronic pain
• Stress and burnout
• Life transitions and adjustment
• Identity exploration and personal development
• Relationship and interpersonal concerns
• Existential questions about meaning, purpose, freedom, and mortality
• Spirituality and changes in worldview
• Psychedelic, Holotropic, and other nonordinary experience integration

You do not need to fit neatly into any particular category. Counseling begins with understanding your individual experience.

Existential–integrative counseling recognizes that psychological well-being involves more than the reduction of symptoms. It also encompasses how we understand ourselves, relate to others, navigate uncertainty, and experience meaning and purpose in our lives.

My approach integrates existential–humanistic, person-centered, transpersonal, somatic, and evidence-informed therapeutic perspectives.

Depending on your needs, our work may incorporate EMDR Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and other complementary approaches.

Together, we’ll attend to both immediate concerns and the deeper patterns, experiences, and questions that may shape your life.

Counseling is collaborative, compassionate, trauma-informed, and adapted to your individual needs and goals.

Yes. I provide integration counseling for adults seeking to process and make sense of psychedelic, Holotropic, spiritually significant, or other nonordinary experiences.

Such experiences can evoke powerful emotions, shifts in perspective, questions about identity, or changes in one’s sense of meaning and connection.

Integration counseling offers a supportive, nonjudgmental environment to explore these experiences, understand their personal significance, and consider how meaningful insights might be incorporated into everyday life.

Earthrise Counseling does not provide, prescribe, administer, or facilitate psychedelic substances. Integration counseling does not involve the provision or supervised use of such substances.

Earthrise Counseling is an online counseling practice providing individual therapy through secure video sessions.

Online counseling allows you to participate from a private, comfortable location within a state where I am authorized to provide services.

You’ll need a reliable internet connection, a device with audio and video capabilities, and an appropriate environment that supports privacy and uninterrupted conversation.

Telehealth suitability is assessed individually based on clinical needs and circumstances.

Earthrise Counseling currently provides online counseling for eligible adults physically located in:

Arizona • Colorado • Florida • Minnesota • Ohio • Texas

I hold the professional licenses, Counseling Compact privileges, or state-specific telehealth authorizations applicable to providing counseling in these jurisdictions.

Your eligibility for online counseling depends on your physical location at the time of your appointment, not solely your state of residence.

Possibly. Telehealth counseling is subject to professional licensing and jurisdictional requirements.

If you plan to travel outside your usual state, please let me know in advance so we can determine whether counseling can legally and appropriately continue from your temporary location.

Even when we have an established therapeutic relationship, counseling cannot automatically be provided from every state or country.

Earthrise Counseling’s standard private-pay rates are:

Initial Intake Session: 90 minutes — $200

Individual Counseling Session: 50 minutes — $150

Special rates are available for eligible veterans, military personnel, and astronauts:

Initial Intake Session: 90 minutes — $150

Individual Counseling Session: 50 minutes — $100

Proof of eligibility is required for special rates.

Please visit the Session Rates page for additional information.

Earthrise Counseling is an exclusively private-pay practice and does not accept health insurance.

This approach allows us to develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship without insurance company requirements determining treatment eligibility, session frequency, or the duration of care.

Private-pay counseling also provides flexibility to explore personal growth, identity, existential questions, and other meaningful life experiences that may not necessarily meet insurance requirements for a mental health diagnosis.

Clients are responsible for payment of services directly.

Yes. I reserve a limited number of sliding-scale openings to help make counseling more accessible to individuals experiencing financial barriers.

Availability is limited and assessed individually. If cost is a concern, you’re welcome to inquire about current options.

I request at least 48 hours’ notice if you need to cancel or reschedule an appointment.

Cancellations or rescheduling requests made with less than 48 hours’ notice are subject to a fee equal to half the scheduled session rate. Missed appointments are subject to the full session fee.

Additional details are provided in the practice’s informed consent and financial policies.

Yes. Under the federal No Surprises Act, clients who do not have health insurance or who choose not to use their insurance are generally entitled to receive a Good Faith Estimate of the expected cost of services.

A Good Faith Estimate provides information about anticipated charges and helps you make informed decisions about your care. It is an estimate rather than a guarantee of your total treatment costs.

For more information about your rights and protections, please visit the No Surprises Act page.

Confidentiality is a foundational part of the therapeutic relationship.

I use secure systems and follow applicable legal, ethical, and professional standards to protect your personal and health information.

As with all counseling services, confidentiality has certain legal and ethical limits, including circumstances involving safety concerns or disclosures required by law.

We’ll review confidentiality and its limitations as part of the informed consent process.

For additional information, please review the Notice of Privacy Practices.

Yes. You may contact me about administrative matters, including scheduling, billing, forms, referrals, and appointment changes.

For privacy and to preserve the therapeutic process, substantive clinical concerns, emotionally sensitive material, and therapeutic exploration are best addressed during scheduled sessions.

Earthrise Counseling is an outpatient counseling practice and does not have the capacity to provide crisis services, emergency response, 24-hour monitoring, on-call services, or immediate clinical intervention outside scheduled services.

Email, text messages, voicemail, website contact forms, and other communications with Earthrise Counseling should not be used for emergencies or situations requiring an immediate response.

If you are experiencing emotional distress, suicidal thoughts, or a mental health or substance-use crisis and need immediate support, call or text 988 to reach the 9-8-8 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

If you believe that you or another person is in immediate danger, are experiencing a medical or psychiatric emergency requiring immediate intervention, or cannot maintain safety, call 9-1-1 or go to the nearest emergency department.

For a list of mental health resources please visit: Mental Health Resources.

Earthrise Counseling’s regular practice hours are:

Tuesday – Friday

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Arizona Time (MST)

Since Arizona does not observe daylight saving time, corresponding hours in other states may vary seasonally.

Colorado: 10 AM — 6 PM MDT | 9 AM — 5 PM MST

Minnesota & Texas: 11 AM — 7 PM CDT | 10 AM — 6 PM CST

Florida & Ohio: 12 PM — 8 PM EDT | 11 AM — 7 PM EST

Administrative messages received outside practice hours will be addressed during regular practice operations.

Earthrise Counseling is an outpatient private practice and does not provide emergency or 24-hour crisis services.

If you are experiencing an immediate emergency, call 9-1-1 or visit the nearest emergency department.

If you are experiencing a mental health crisis in the United States, call or text 9-8-8 to connect with the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

Additional state-specific crisis resources are available through the Mental Health Resources section of the website.

Yes. In addition to individual counseling, I am available for select speaking engagements, conference presentations, workshops, professional education, panels, podcast and media interviews, and organizational consultation.

My areas of interest include existential and transpersonal psychology, psychological well-being, the Overview Effect, awe and wonder, ecopsychology, human flourishing, psychedelic integration, and mental health within the space community.

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