What Services Do You Offer?
Intakes
I begin with curiosity about your experience. What are you noticing? What are you longing for? What may be getting in your way? Our first appointment includes a discussion of what you are struggling with, your background, family, and daily life. We also discuss what you hope to get out of treatment and your priorities. Based on our discussion, I'll offer you some options that could help you meet your goals, which might include talk therapy, embodied trauma processing, ketamine assisted therapy, medication consultation or adjustment, intentional movement, time in nature, nutritional counseling, or some combination of interventions. If you are local, I may refer you to other practitioners I trust, such as a functional medicine physician, chiropractor, acupuncturist, weight-neutral dietitian, massage therapist, physical therapist, or herbalist. I meet clients where they are and help them navigate these options with compassion and honesty with the possibilities and limitations of each modality.
Integrative Psychiatric Wisdom
An authentic relationship is the foundation of treatment. You’re invited to co-create a space at Conscious Practice where you can safely land with whatever arises for you—the dark, the light, and anything in between. Treatment is thus truly unique to each person’s needs and wishes. Some find that medication plays a role in their healing. We may begin, adjust, reduce, or stop medications based on your health and goals. Some clients enjoy integrated therapy and medication management. Other clients appreciate focusing on therapy or medications alone. There is no rigid path to follow here.
Offerings include:
Integrative mental health assessment
Holistic treatment planning
Medication consultations, exploration, prescribing, and simplifying
Nutritional counseling
Inner parts work
Somatic therapy
Relational therapy
Mindfulness practice support
Psychedelic integration support
Embodied trauma processing using ART (in-person only)
Ketamine assisted therapy (in-person only)
Learn more about my therapeutic approach, background, and practice influences.
Embodied Trauma Processing with Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
One tool I am particularly excited to offer clients is my approach that incorporates Accelerated Resolution Therapy—an innovative, evidence-based treatment that uses eye movements to change the way distressing memories are stored in the brain. Pulling from this model, I use eye movement somatic processing to guide you to internally process and reimagine whatever experience causes you pain, leading to new insights and deep relief. An IFS-informed ART session at Conscious Practice empowers you to resolve unseen wounds and dramatically shift your emotions by shifting the sensations and images that come up for you about an event or a troubling thought. It allows you to digest painful experiences creatively without verbalizing the memories.
Unlike conventional talk therapy which focuses largely on verbal cognitive processes, the focus of ART is on the functioning of the deeper levels of the nervous system and energetic bodies therein. ART is both a complement to talk therapy and an alternative to talk therapy. It is short-term, highly efficient treatment. You find relief each session. Clients typically complete 1-4 ART sessions, which can be interwoven with other talk sessions or stand-alone treatments depending on your needs and preferences.
Learn more about Accelerated Resolution Therapy.
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Ketamine is a powerful dissociative medication with psychedelic properties. Used medically in anesthesia since the 1960s, it is increasingly used in psychiatry at low to moderate doses to promote mental health. There is growing evidence that ketamine is a safe, effective treatment for many states of mental unwellness, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, and other "stuck" mental patterns causing suffering. When paired with a trusting therapeutic relationship and whole-system consent, treatment with ketamine can be a powerful tool for people who want to explore non-ordinary states, make significant progress in their healing, and grow.
At Conscious Practice, ketamine assisted therapy can be interwoven into your personalized holistic treatment plan. At bare bones, it includes intake, trauma-sensitive preparation, medicine session(s), and integration therapy for appropriate clients. There are a number of ways ketamine can be administered or taken into the body, including intravenous infusion (IV), intramuscular injection (IM), sinus cavity spray (intranasal), and under-the-tongue lozenge (sublingual). I currently offer ketamine medicine sessions using under-the-tongue lozenges. Each medicine route has pros and cons, leading to a qualitatively different experience that also varies with dose and a person’s history. Like any potential medicine prescribed, dosing and route of administration is thoughtfully chosen based on each individual client’s health, needs, preferences, and overall treatment plan.
Full Spectrum Holistic Perinatal Mental Health Care
Whether your journey has included depression or anxiety during pregnancy or postpartum, intrusive thoughts about your children or your worth as a parent, fertility struggles, miscarriage, abortion, traumatic birth, sexual assault, or any experience that left you feeling disempowered, I am here to support you in processing your reproductive experiences. I am able to help people navigate mental health treatment options and decision-making during the tender seasons of pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Online Options for Secure, Flexible Treatment
All services are offered in-person at my private office in Downtown La Crosse or virtually through secure video calls for clients anywhere in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, or Minnesota. At Conscious Practice, there is no administrative staff, so you know you will always be communicating directly with me. I use a secure scheduling and messaging app, Simple Practice, for all communication with clients.
Supportive Mentorship and Case Consultation
Are you a nurse practitioner or therapist interested in holistic treatments, integrative approaches, IFS, ART, and somatic therapies? Are you a professional looking for collaboration with a mental health practitioner who thinks (and exists!) outside the box? I would love to be a resource to you.
How Do I Pay?
I appreciate the energetic investment you are making in your own wellbeing when you choose to work with me and am confident in the value you receive investing in your mental health. Paying is simple, integrated in our scheduling and messaging system, and done right at the time of service. Clients enter the card of their choice — a credit, debit, Health Savings Account (HSA), or Flexible Spending Account (FSA) card — directly into their patient portal one time before our first appointment. Your card data is stored confidentially and encrypted. Clients are then charged automatically at the end of the day after your session. No bills, no hassle.
What About Insurance?
Conscious Practice is a fee for service practice. I do not engage with any insurance company panels, so I cannot accept payment from commercial insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid. Financial independence from insurance allows you to receive truly personalized care beyond the medical model rather than letting insurance companies control the care you receive. Insurance companies mandate a diagnosis, oversee your health records, and can legally seek access to your personal information. They also may limit your coverage to a set number of sessions per year, regardless of what you're going through, what a practitioner recommends, or what you want. When considering the implications of using insurance, paying directly is a better fit for some people.
To support any clients who wish to get money back from their insurance, I can provide clients with an electronic "superbill" document (essentially, a detailed receipt) after each visit. You can then submit that "superbill" document to your health insurance company to see if they will reimburse you for any out-of-network treatment costs. Some clients who pursue this route get partial reimbursement from their insurance. I am not available to take time away from client care to communicate with insurance companies, so clients are responsible for communicating with insurance companies to pursue potential reimbursement if they desire.
