Rates & Policies
Transparent, simple, and honored.
Self-pay rates, with clear policies and superbills available for out-of-network reimbursement.
Therapy session
$250
Per session, self-pay. Couples, individuals, teens, and children.
Late cancellation
$100
Cancellations within 24 hours of your session. We do our best to reschedule.
What the rate covers
Why this practice is self-pay.
A session is $250, paid directly. That covers a full clinical hour with Maria, not an intake coordinator, not a rotating associate, not a therapist assigned to you by a directory. Thirty years of practice, EMDR certification, and marriage and family training are what you are actually paying for, and they are the reason most people arrive here after trying something cheaper first.
Staying self-pay is a clinical decision more than a financial one. Insurance panels require a diagnosis in the file, they cap the number of sessions they consider medically necessary, and they can request records that describe your marriage in language you never chose. Couples work in particular does not fit neatly into that system: there is often no diagnosable illness in the room, only two people who want to stay together. Working outside insurance means the length and direction of the work are decided between you and Maria, and your file stays private.
Couples sessions are the same $250 as individual sessions. There is no surcharge for having two people in the room, and no separate rate for teens or children.
Insurance and superbills
Out-of-network, explained plainly.
A superbill is simply an itemized receipt written the way an insurer expects to read it. It lists the date of each session, the service code, the fee you paid, and Maria's license and tax details. It is not a claim she files for you, it is the paperwork that lets you file one yourself.
In practice it works like this: you pay for sessions as you go, you receive a superbill (monthly, or at whatever interval suits you), and you submit it to your insurer under your out-of-network benefit. Many PPO plans then reimburse a percentage of the fee once your out-of-network deductible is met. Before you assume there is nothing there, call the number on your card and ask two questions: do I have out-of-network outpatient mental health coverage, and what is my out-of-network deductible. Those two answers tell you almost everything about what therapy will actually cost you.
Under the No Surprises Act you also have the right to a Good Faith Estimate of expected costs, in writing, at the start of care. Ask and it is provided.
Scheduling and the first session
The hour is held for you.
Cancellations inside 24 hours are billed at $100. The reason is straightforward rather than punitive: your hour is reserved and not offered to anyone else, and a same-day opening almost never fills. Life happens, and Maria would always rather move a session than lose it, if something comes up, reach out early and rescheduling within the same week is usually possible.
The first session is mostly listening. Maria will ask what brought you now rather than a year ago, what you have already tried, and what you want to be different. If you come as a couple, both people get real time to describe the problem in their own words. Toward the end she will tell you how she reads the situation and what she would suggest working on first. Most people leave that hour with something concrete to try before the next one.
Sessions run in person at the Weston office or by secure video anywhere in Florida, in English or Spanish, at the same rate either way.
One last thing, said plainly: money is a fair thing to talk about in therapy. If the rate or the frequency is becoming a strain, say so out loud in session. Cost quietly becoming the reason someone stops coming is the worst version of this, it is far better to adjust the spacing of sessions, set a shorter and more focused course of work, or be pointed toward a good lower-fee clinician. Maria will have that conversation honestly, and she will tell you directly if she thinks another therapist is the better fit.