Sometimes it is hard to travel to see a therapist. If you are interested in phone sessions, I will assess the appropriateness of this during our initial 15-minute call. Face to face therapy is the best way to work, but if you are an extremely verbal person and have no trouble opening up to someone you've never met before, phone sessions may be right for you. If you are at all suicidal or at risk of hurting someone, you need to be in face to face therapy with a local therapist who can assess you more completely than is ever possible on the telephone and who has the ability to intervene appropriately to protect you or others. If you are having symptoms that require the kinds of medicine your personal physician won't prescribe, that is, those that are typically prescribed only by psychiatrists, you should have a therapist who has a working relationship with a psychiatrists in your area. If you need referrals to resources in your community, you should be seeing a therapist where you live. If you are court referred, or have legal problems that may later require submission of therapy documents, I will not provide phone therapy.
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