Insurance & Therapy, pt 2: What other therapists are saying…

Posted by drdemarco in Insurance, Welcome

We do not accept insurance- And here is why…   Right now there is a discussion on one of the mental health groups on LinkedIn about the problems with the DSM and using insurance in therapy.  I wanted to share a few of the exchanges here in response to a post by Hilding Ohrstrom, LCPC: To DSM or Not to DSM, that is the question….. Earlier in my career, I used to think...

Insurance & Therapy, pt 1

Posted by drdemarco in Articles, Insurance, Welcome

We do not accept insurance for therapy-  And here is why. People don’t generally expect therapy when making out their budgets.  They really don’t expect it when they have insurance coverage that covers medically necessary treatments.  For these treatments to be covered, the clinician must give you a medical diagnosis, which becomes part of an elaborate trail of paperwork...

Let’s take a dive into the symptom pool

Posted by drdemarco in Articles, Therapy Styles

I’m currently reading “Crazy like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche” by Ethan Watters,  which I highly recommend.  Watters discusses the concept of the “symptom pool”, which is what informs the manifestations of mental illnesses like anorexia, for example.  In other words, we express our internal conflicts in ways that make sense to those...