How To Prepare For Your First Session
Contact your insurance company to confirm your benefits for mental health outpatient therapy sessions. You will want to ask if you have a copayment or deductible plan and what to expect for your costs per session. You will also want to ask if you need an authorization for services. You will want to ask if ME Psychotherapy is an in-network provider with your plan.
Be ready to ask questions for your provider if you’d like! You can ask them about their specialties, where they went to school, what their therpeutic style is, if they assign homework, if they are available in the evenings - any question that feels important for you to know as you prepare for your work together.
What To Expect At Your First Session
Think of your first session as a consultation. You and your provider want to be sure it feels like a good match. At the end of your first session, you and your provider will decide together if you’d like to proceed with services or if you’d like to explore seeing another provider.
Be ready to discuss the reason you want to begin therapy. Have an idea of some goals to work on. If you have had therapy before, share what has and has not worked in the past with other providers.
Ongoing Sessions
Depending on the goals, therapy can be short term and solution focused or a longer journey uncovering past issues and working through ongoing concerns. Therapy can last months or years, it is a unique situation for every client. Be sure to discuss your goals with your provider as you begin sessions.