Individual, couples, and family therapy in Nashville and Franklin
Therapy for adults, children and teenagers, couples, and families, at either office or online. Each format below explains who it suits, what a session involves, and how to ask about an appointment.
What is the difference between a service, a method, and an area of work?
The three words get used as if they mean the same thing. On this site they do not. A service is who is in the room. A method is how the therapist works. An area of work is what brought you in.
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A service is who is in the room
Individual therapy, couples counseling, family therapy, or therapy for a child or teenager. If the question is who attends, you are choosing a service.
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A method is how the therapist works
EMDR, IFS, AEDP, somatic therapy, Brainspotting. A method describes what the clinician does in the session, and it can change as the work does.
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An area of work is what brought you in
Anxiety, trauma, grief, neurodivergence, a change in health. An area of work is the concern itself, and each one has a page with the therapists who focus on it.
What is individual therapy for adults?
One adult and one therapist. It suits anything you would rather work through privately: anxiety that has settled in, a decision you keep circling, a loss you have not had room to feel. You set the pace and decide what to bring.
What it suits. Anxiety, low mood, grief, a change you did not choose, a pattern you keep repeating, or a decision you cannot land on.
What a session involves. An hour of conversation with one other person, in the Nashville or Franklin office, or over a secure video platform.
What it costs. Sessions start at $150 an hour, and insurance is accepted. The practical arrangements below cover the rest.
How to start. Request an appointment, or ask for the free 15 minute phone call to check the fit before you book.

What is therapy for children and teenagers?
Therapy for a younger person rarely looks like two chairs and a long conversation. Play, drawing, and talking while doing something with your hands are often easier than sitting face to face, and the pace is set by what the young person can manage.
What it suits. Anxiety, school refusal, big feelings that come out at home, a change in the family, friendship trouble, or a teenager who has gone quiet.
What a session involves. Play, art, or conversation, depending on age, with one therapist. Parents are usually met at the start and at intervals, and how much of the sessions you hear about is agreed in advance.
What it costs. Sessions start at $150 an hour, and insurance is accepted. The practical arrangements below cover the rest.
How to start. Request an appointment and tell us the young person's age, or ask for the free 15 minute phone call first.

What is couples and relationship counseling?
Two people in the room, working on what happens between them rather than on who is right. Most couples arrive after the same argument has repeated for years, or at a point where a decision is coming: whether to marry, whether to have a child, whether to stay.
What it suits. The same argument on repeat, a loss of closeness, a betrayal, a difference in what you want next, or a decision about staying together.
What a session involves. Both partners with one therapist, who slows the exchange down so both people are heard, including the part that is hard to say in front of the other.
What it costs. Sessions start at $150 an hour, and insurance is accepted. It is worth asking what your policy covers for couples work before you book.
How to start. Request an appointment, or use the free 15 minute call to say what has been happening and check that this is the right format.

What is family therapy?
More than one member of the same household in the room at once, working on the pattern between you rather than on one person as the problem. It is usually one person's difficulty that brings the family in, and everyone turns out to have something to say about it.
What it suits. A change or loss the household has not absorbed, a teenager in conflict with a parent, a blended family finding its footing, or one person's diagnosis reshaping daily life.
What a session involves. Whoever can come, in a room with one therapist. Not everyone needs to attend every time, and how that will work is agreed early rather than assumed.
What it costs. Sessions start at $150 an hour, and insurance is accepted. The practical arrangements below cover the rest.
How to start. Request an appointment and tell us who would be coming, or use the free 15 minute call first.

What is group therapy?
Therapy with several people in the room who share a common experience, led by a clinician. It is a different kind of listening: you hear how other people have lived with what you are living with, and you are heard by more than one person at once.
What it suits. Loss, a diagnosis, recovery, neurodivergence, or a life stage such as new parenthood, where the useful thing is being among people in the same place.
What a session involves. A small group with a set time and a set rhythm, run by a clinician who keeps it on course. Groups agree to confidentiality at the outset, and that agreement is what makes the room usable.
What it costs. Group rates are usually lower than individual sessions. Ask what the current fee is when you inquire.
Availability. Ask what is running at the moment, or whether a group is planned for what you are dealing with. If nothing is open, individual, couples, or family therapy may still fit.

What does therapy cost, and how do the practical details work?
One rate, stated before you book, with insurance accepted and a free 15 minute call first. Anything left open here, ask and you will get a straight answer.
Sessions start at $150 an hour
That is the number to plan around, and it is stated before you book rather than after. Ask about anything that would change it for your situation.
Insurance is accepted
What is covered depends on your plan. Check what your policy allows for outpatient therapy, then tell us what you find and we will tell you what we can bill.
The first conversation is free
A 15 minute phone call to check the fit, at no charge and with nothing to commit to. It is also where you can ask who is trained in what.
Sessions run by appointment
Ask about the notice period for cancelling or rescheduling when you book, so you know where you stand before it ever comes up.
Not sure which format fits?
Most people are not sure before they call, and it is a hard question to answer on your own. Tell us who the appointment is for and what you are hoping will change, and we will suggest the format that usually fits. The free 15 minute call exists for exactly this conversation.
If it is about you, and you would rather work one to one, that is individual therapy.
If the difficulty sits between you and a partner, that is couples counseling.
If it involves children or the whole household, that is family therapy.
