What to Expect

Your First Appointment

Your first appointment is a huge milestone and we want to celebrate you and make everything as seamless as possible. Here’s what you can expect for your first appointment.

After scheduling your first appointment, your therapist will send you a link to access a variety of documents. These will need to be reviewed and signed/initialed. These documents will be accessed through a portal called. “Simple Practice”. This portal will be where everything happens.

You specifically want to pay attention to and thoroughly read your therapist “Disclosure Statement”. This will help you to better understand what their therapy style is and what to expect from therapy.

Once you review and sign all the necessary paperwork, you will be ready for your first counseling session. The first session is considered the Initial Intake. The therapist will obtain information that brings you in for counseling and go over what you would like to work towards. This particular session will last longer than the sessions that follow it. You can expect your first appointment to run about 90 minutes.

The subsequent visits will be the sessions where you and your clinician work towards your goal. These will be around 50 minutes each time.

Following your appointments you will submit payment for the session either in person or by email invoice. You will also discuss scheduling your next appointment with your therapist.

Payment & Insurance

For all interested individuals wanting more information about therapy or counseling sessions, we are currently offering a FREE 15 minute phone consultation. During this time we will discuss your current mental health needs and concerns. Additionally, will begin the discussion of your individual treatment plan. To book this consultation, simply click the “BOOK A SESSION” button below or in the top right corner.
Session prices are as follows:
**First Appointment (Intake Session):** $150* (90 minutes)
**Subsequent Sessions**: $100 per clinical hour (50 minutes) .
Payment is due at the time of service. Payment plans are available on a case by case basis. We currently are a private pay practice are unfortunately not taking insurance at this time.
Methods of payment accepted: cash, credit card, FSA and HSA cards, & ivy pay.

Cancellations:

At Chatham Counseling, we work diligently to not double-book appointments or cause any overlap in clients. If for some reason you are unable to keep this appointment, please notify us within 24 hours of your appointment time. By doing this, you will not be charged a cancellation fee.

If you fail to attend your appointment without any notice or cancel within 24 hours of your appointment time, you will be charged for the full session rate of $100.

While some clients prefer to opt for an appointment time slot on a repeating basis, we are happy to accommodate this request. However, in the event of consecutive and/or multiple cancellations of repeat appointments, we will no longer reserve a standing appointment. This will result in scheduling appointments at the end of each session.

In the event of inclement weather, please contact the office directly. We will be diligent in keeping all clients updated on any office hour changes.

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Our Office

We look forward to welcoming you to our office where we hold therapy sessions for both adults, teens & children. Scroll the images below to get a glimpse of what to expect.