Individual Therapy Rates and Insurances Accepted:

Rates:

Intake Assessment/ Session: $165 ($175 after 01/01/27)

55 Minute Individual Session: $140 ($150 after 01/01/27)

Couples Sessions: See below (Private Pay only)

Insurance Plans Accepted:

Blue Cross/ Blue Shield

UPMC Commercial Plans and Marketplace Plans

United Healthcare/ Optum/ UMR

Aetna (Certain clinicians)

*We are out of network with all other plans, but can usually submit out of network courtesy claims on you behalf*

Couples Counseling Information:

Life Balance Counseling and Wellness does not bill insurance for couples sessions or provide a superbill for couples sessions.

Insurance companies require 3 things in order to pay for or reimburse for mental health treatment:

  1. An identified client

  2. A mental health diagnosis included in the plan’s reimbursement policies

  3. Documented evidence that the identified client AND their diagnosis were directly treated by medically necessary interventions

When couples come to us for therapy, we see the couples itself as the client. We will not diagnose one “identified client” just to meet insurance requirements. When we treat a couple, we are treating a relationship: one that may need more effective communication patterns, repaired trust, improved intimacy, and an overall more joyful connection. In the eyes of insurance, these things are not “medically necessary.”

Couples therapy with our practice, provided by our Gottman Method trained, certified sex therapist Michelle Jones, LCSW, is an investment in your relationship and your future.

Our rates for couples counseling are:

Initial Assessment: $170 ($180 after 01/01/27)

55 minute session: $145 ($160 after 01/01/27)