How To Prepare For Your First Session

You will receive an email from our office that your appointment has been confirmed. This email will include a link to your client portal, where you will find your intake appointment documents. You must complete these documents prior to your appointment.
Upload your insurance card photos (front/back) to your client portal and complete your paperwork prior to your appointment.
Contact your insurance company to confirm your benefits for mental health outpatient therapy sessions. You will want to ask if you have a copayment or deductible plan and what to expect for your costs per session. You will also want to ask if you need an authorization for services. You will want to ask if ME Psychotherapy is an in-network provider with your plan.
If you have additional questions after contacting your insurance and you want to speak to our Billing Assistant about your coverage and fees, please contact billing@mepsychotherapy.com.
Be ready to ask questions for your provider if you’d like! You can ask them about their specialties, where they went to school, what their therpeutic style is, if they assign homework, if they are available in the evenings - any question that feels important for you to know as you prepare for your work together.

What To Expect At Your First Session

If you requested a free 10 minute phone consultation, your provider will call you at the scheduled time.
If you requested an in person appointment, please arrive at the office location 5 minutes before your scheduled appointment and take a seat in our waiting room.
If you requested a Telehealth appointment, you will receive a link via email and text in the days prior to your appointment and again 10 minutes before your scheduled appointment time.
Think of your first session as a consultation. You and your provider want to be sure it feels like a good match. At the end of your first session, you and your provider will decide together if you’d like to proceed with services or if you’d like to explore seeing another provider.
Be ready to discuss the reason you want to begin therapy. Have an idea of some goals to work on. If you have had therapy before, share what has and has not worked in the past with other providers.

Depending on the goals, therapy can be short term and solution focused or a longer journey uncovering past issues and working through ongoing concerns. Therapy can last months or years, it is a unique situation for every client. Be sure to discuss your goals with your provider as you begin sessions.