Hope Psychotherapy Colleen Richards, LMHC
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Eight ways in. All of them lead to the same room.

People arrive with a label they have given themselves, or one a doctor gave them, or with no label at all and just a sense that this cannot continue. Any of those is a fine starting point. These pages describe what the work actually involves rather than listing symptoms back at you.

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One clinician

You see me every week. No rotating associates, no handoffs, no being reassigned to whoever has capacity.

No intake gauntlet

A phone call with a human, not a thirty question form that decides whether you are worth a callback.

Published fees

Everything is on the fees page, including the reduced rate range and how the superbill works.

Reviewed openly

Every six to eight weeks we check whether this is working, including whether you want to keep going.

Not sure which one

Most people fit into three of these at once, which is normal.

The categories above are a filing system for a website, not a description of how distress actually organises itself. A performer with panic attacks and a drinking pattern that started after a bad year does not need to decide which page they belong on before they call.

In practice we start with whatever is loudest, and the rest becomes visible once there is a bit of room. If you genuinely cannot tell what the main thing is, that itself is useful information and a perfectly good opening sentence for a consult call.

Talk it through in 15 minutes

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Ready to bring yourself in the most self loving way

A first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Fifteen minutes on the phone is usually enough to tell whether we are a fit.

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