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Counseling

  • I offer (limited) sliding scale fees to make therapy more accessible to individuals from various economic backgrounds.

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    Standard Fees

    • $160 per hour for 50 minutes of individual therapy

    • $200 for 50 minutes of family therapy

  • I have been influenced by the work of many theorists, including but not limited to: Irvin D. Yalom, Jennifer Freyd, John Bowlby, Carl Jung and Gabor Mate.

    Here are some strategies I may use during our time together.

    Narrative Therapy with Storytelling

    Narrative therapy pays attention to how people make sense of their experiences and honors values. This kind of therapy allows us to see our problems as separate from who we are as people. I may use a mix of storytelling prompts to help you look at your story through a third-person lens. This can help give you new perspectives and work through problems differently than you ever have. 

    Written Exposure Therapy (WET) for PTSD

    WET is a 5 session therapeutic writing intervention that can help you find new ways to think about a traumatic experience and what it means to you.

    Inner Child and Reparenting Work 

    These techniques have been around for a while for good reason: they are effective. Reparenting work allows you the opportunity to give yourself what you didn't have growing up in a way that changes your relationship with yourself. This work involves learning new, adaptive ways of being with yourself in the world and with others. 

    Stages of Change Model for Dual Diagnosis

    This model helps us describe and talk about how a person integrates new goals and behaviors at various places in their journey of change.

    Communication and Boundaries Work

    Without clear boundaries, resentments can form, harden and hurt our closest relationships. Clarifying and communicating your boundaries is an ongoing process and it can bring up fear and anxiety—but the work is well worth it. Boundary work creates real change. 

    Motivational Interviewing Techniques

    MI is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication that places focus on the language of change

    Decision Trees and Decision Mapping

    Decision Mapping is a way to visually strategize and can be helpful when embarking on new territory. When you are faced with forks in the road, these tools, and discussions that arise from them, can be useful in sorting out the next right thing for you to do. 

    Adoption Constellation & Trauma Informed Counseling

    Adoption trauma-informed therapists understand that our body has memory through our senses even before we had verbal language, meaning that even if they were relinquished as a newborn, an adoptee has experienced and remembers (on a body-level) the loss of their birthmother; this is called implicit memory (Randolph, 2014). Some common themes discussed with all triad members in therapy often include: unprocessed grief, shame, identity, discovery, and search and reunion. Adoption constellation counseling is work that can be done individually and in family therapy with adoptees, birthparents and adoptive parents. 

    Search and Reunion Strategies

    This work is for anyone who is interested in connecting with long lost family members and has many stages:

    • Consideration

    • The Search Process

    • Initial Contact

    • Possible Ongoing Relationship Building. 

    Grief is always involved throughout search and reunion regardless of whether or not family is found, and regardless of whether or not they are interested in reunion. 

    In therapy, we can navigate this often rough, bumpy terrain together and consider all options.

     Some specific strategies I use during this process include: 

    • Creative Writing Prompts

    • Education and Guidance for searching

    • Resource Connection for aid with search,

    • First Contact Initiation Support and Ongoing Support, 

    • Family Counseling, 

    • Decision Making Maps  

    • Communication Role Play.

    Family Tree and Genogram Development

    The Genogram is an in-depth version of a family tree that goes back several generations and is a frequently used visual method for identifying who is in the family, and what role important family members play with respect to one another.

  • Support Groups:

    Beginners Commitment packet:

    Cost:

    Workshops

    Are priced individually.

Ongoing Support Groups: Contact to inquire about joining!

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Flyer for Adult Adoptee Support Group by Coppola Counseling & Consultation, LLC, with web address, event details, cost, location in South Portland, Maine, and contact email.

Good Faith Estimate

Notice to clients and prospective clients:
Under the law, health care providers need to give clients who don’t have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the expected charges for medical services, including psychotherapy services. You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency healthcare services, including psychotherapy services. You can ask your health care provider, and any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule a service, or at any time during treatment. If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill. Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate. For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, or how to dispute a bill, see your Estimate, or visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises.