Services/Fees

Individual and Couples Therapy with Abbey Pelosi

AASECT certified sex therapist (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists)

All are welcome here. Explore what it means to be your most authentic self.

Sexual health and relationship therapy: the goal is to help support you to understand your sexuality in order to create connection, pleasure, and the relationships you desire. My practice is sex positive (where sexuality is embraced and explored with positivity, education, and consent), trauma informed (where understand prevalence/impact of trauma and create environment that promotes recovery), and inclusive to all. If you identify or are curious about kink, BDSM lifestyle, open relationships, poly, poly with children, living in the lifestyle (swinging), sex worker, LGBTQIA+, or gender expansive you are welcome here.

Common issues address in therapy:

• Kinks/fetishes
• Consensual nonmonogamy, poly, swinging, cuckholding, and other forms of relational diversity
• Infidelity, divorce, break ups
• Religion and sexuality
• Cancer, anxiety, depression
• Improving desire, arousal, performance, and confidence
• Mental health and impact on sexuality
• Sexual trauma recovery
• Gender and sexual orientation diversity
• Communication and emotional connection
• HIV/AIDS, STIs- education and stigma

Abbey Pelosi, LCSW-S, CST

Self Pay and Humana insurance

Hours: M-Th 8-2

Office and Telehealth based appointments

Fees:

• Individual Therapy: $200 per 50 minute session
• Cancel/Reschedule: Requires 48 hour notice.
• Late Cancellation/No Show: Full session fee
• Professional Consultation and Letter Writing: $200 per hour and dependent on length of session/preparation
• LCSW Supervision: $100 individual 60 minute session

For other insurance plans we can provide you with a detailed invoice following your session if you would like to submit for reimbursement from your insurance provider.

Payment is required at the time of service in the form of cash, check, HSA/FSA or credit card.

Clinical Supervision

Let’s talk social work!

You realize that you want clinical supervision to advance in your career, but you want to make sure it’s high quality. We offer  strengths based, collaborative, and creative clinical supervision.

Do you vacillate between feeling confident about your skills and feeling like an imposter? Timely and supportive supervision is important to building necessary skills, increasing confidence, and preventing burnout. If you want to cultivate your personal and professional skills and develop into an authentic therapist, we can help. Please contact Lace or Abbey to set up an initial meeting time.

Let’s move your professional life forward.

Individual LCSW Supervision

$100 for a 60 minute session

Professional Experience includes practice in the following areas:

• Community Mental Health
• Hospice & Palliative Care
• Medical (Hospital and Skilled Nursing)
• Independent Practice
• Grief and Bereavement
• Foster Care/Youth
• Crisis Social Work

Modalities utilized at Austin Healing Center | Holistic Therapy

Your clinician will assess which modalities are appropriate for your treatment.

Neuropsychology: the study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a modified form of cognitive therapy that incorporates mindfulness practices such as meditation and breathing exercises. Using these tools, MBCT therapists teach clients how to break away from negative thought patterns.

Sex Therapy focuses on improving intimacy, strengthening communication skills, and exploring ways to communicate your desires to others.

Narrative Therapy looks at the stories a person carries around and the values learned from these stories. Collaboratively a person learns how to re-write the script for these stories to fit into their current value system.

Emotional Freedom Technique: Often called tapping, EFT helps desensitize negative emotions using the energy meridian points; it draws on varies forms of alternative medicine.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: EMDR is a form of psychotherapy designed to diminish negative feelings associated with memories of traumatic events. Unlike most forms of talk therapy, EMDR focuses less on the traumatic event itself and more on the disturbing emotions and symptoms that result from the event. Treatment includes a hand motion technique used by the therapist to guide the client’s eye movements from side to side, similar to watching a pendulum swing.

Ecotherapy is the name given to a wide range of treatment programs which aim to improve your mental and physical wellbeing through doing outdoor activities in nature. Connecting with nature in this way can have lots of positive health benefits.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy. Its main goals are to teach people how to live in the moment, cope healthily with stress, regulate emotions, and improve relationships with others.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a short-term, goal-oriented psychotherapy treatment that takes a hands-on, practical approach to problem-solving. Its goal is to change patterns of thinking or behavior that are behind people’s difficulties, and so change the way they feel.

Body-Centered Psychotherapy describes therapeutic approaches that integrate a client’s physical body into the therapy process.