Do you accept insurance?

Yes, I accept Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO for Illinois clients. I can check your insurance benefits before you start therapy to help you understand your costs. If I’m not in-network with your insurance, I’ll provide a statement for you to submit to your insurance for reimbursement.

I do not accept insurance in Sweden or Europe.

Do you work with clients outside the United States?

Yes. I work with adults across Europe. I am based in Sweden and practice entirely online, which makes sessions accessible across time zones. I have particular experience with internationally mobile adults, expats, and global professionals navigating life between cultures.

Can I see a US-licensed therapist online if I live in Europe?

I work with clients internationally, but whether I can provide psychotherapy to you depends on the regulations where you are physically located. If you're living outside Illinois, contact me and we can discuss whether working together is permitted in your location.

I've lived in multiple countries and don't feel fully at home anywhere. Is that something therapy can help with?

Yes — and it's one of the things I find most meaningful to work with. The experience of being from everywhere and nowhere, of having left versions of yourself behind in different places, of performing fluency in cultures that don't quite fit — these are real losses and real disorientation, even when life looks successful from the outside. This is exactly the kind of thing depth therapy is built for.

Are therapy sessions in person or virtual?

Right now I offer therapy virtually, through an encrypted video platform that's easy to use and meets strict privacy standards, including HIPAA. Before each session, you'll get an email with a link to the meeting.

What happens in the first session?

In the first session, we'll usually go over a bit of your history, what's brought you in, and what has and hasn't worked for you before. I'm also happy to walk you through more of how I work, if that's useful.

What is the first step in starting therapy?

You can reach out through the contact form, and from there we'll sort out the practical details by email — timing, meeting virtually, insurance. Next is a short phone call, just to get a first sense of whether this feels like a good fit for what you're looking for. If it does, we'll schedule your first session. Most people meet for 3–4 sessions, and then we check in together on whether to continue.

What is depth psychotherapy, and how is it different from CBT or short-term therapy?

Depth psychotherapy is interested in the underlying patterns that shape how you feel, relate, and move through the world. Rather than teaching specific techniques or working toward a fixed endpoint, this approach takes time to understand you as a particular person: your history, your relational patterns, the way your past keeps showing up in your present.

What are the benefits of therapy?

Both research and experience point to the same thing: the relationship between therapist and client — the fit of it, the quality of it — is what actually makes therapy work. My role isn’t to give advice or be judgmental about what you bring in. It is a relationship of building warmth and support, insight and the hard work of change together. For more information about this relationship, I find this article insightful: Why the Most Important Part of Therapy Is So Misunderstood by Santiago Delboy