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Consulting sessions are held exclusively via Zoom. You can meet on your schedule, anywhere. No driving to an office, no waiting rooms. 

Consulting sessions are 50-minutes. 

I am an Emotional Health Consultant. This means I hold no formal license as a therapist. The work that I do with my clients is a result of both embodying my own healing work as well as dedicating years to education and embodiment in areas such as  Polyvagal Theory, Attachment Theory, Somatic Experiencing and IFS/Parts Work. I hold the belief, like many of my mentors, that we truly heal and transform best through pairing therapy modalities.

You are free to come into your first session with a pre-determined goal in mind (i.e. "I want resolve in a specific relationship" or "I want to stop experiencing panic attacks") or you can come just knowing that you want more support as you pursue the life that you want. Either way, you can feel confident that any time that you are investing into your emotional health and wellbeing is never wasted.

Healing is not on a linear timeline, but you will likely begin to feel the effects of this individualized attention and care quickly because it is not typical to what we often experience in day to day life.

Thought patterns, body symptoms, and deep emotional wounds need time and space to repair because they took time to present in the first place - this means that you will want to anticipate at least one year of consistent (weekly or bi-weekly) sessions for significant change.

Hope also believes that often when we hold expectations of when we should "be better", it slows the process by creating a certain level of internal judgement and anxiety. However, when we feel permission to just need as much time as we need, we start to heal and experience change faster. 

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The current rate for incoming clients is $55 per 50-minute session

Once a client, you will receive an email before the start of each month that contains a scheduling calendar, allowing you to book your sessions for one month at a time at your convenience. 

All sessions are booked and attended at-will. There is no contract or obligation involved.  Hope's highest value is for you to feel like you are in the driver's seat of your experience - never pushed. She is also so happy to be with you for as long as you are getting the support needed by working together. 

Any cancellation or request for rescheduling of a session can be communicated via email to hope@hopeforlifeconsulting.com no later than 24hrs before the scheduled session.

Any cancellation, reschedule, or missed appointment that is not done prior to 24hr-notice of the scheduled session will be billed in full, unless it is an emergency or illness that you communicate about as soon as possible. Missed session = 15 minutes late. This is a strict policy which you are agreeing to upon completing the scheduling of all sessions.

Directly following your first session, you will receive an invoice via email. The card used to pay the invoice is the card that will remain on file for you. Going forward, the cost for each session is charged after the session is completed. **Please note the cancellation/missed appointment policy. You are always so welcome to email Hope if you need to change anything about your payment process (i.e. change of card, change of day charged). Failure to pay for a completed session will result in inability to receive a future session.