Plain-language answers on how therapy and mindfulness differ, how fees and reimbursement work, and what to expect if you have never meditated before.
Psychotherapy is clinical mental-health care from a licensed therapist, working with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief or relationship distress under HIPAA protection. Meditation coaching is non-clinical teaching focused on building a personal secular practice, rather like working with a voice or posture teacher. Some people choose one, and some pair both.
Stillpoint is an out-of-network practice. You can pay for therapy sessions with an HSA or FSA card, and you receive an itemised monthly superbill that many PPO plans reimburse in part after your deductible.
Yes. Noticing that your mind is racing is mindfulness, not a failure at it. No class asks you to force your mind blank, chant or sit painfully on the floor: there are upholstered chairs, kneeling benches and bolsters alongside the cushions.
No. We respect the contemplative traditions mindfulness comes from, but therapy, the MBSR course and the weekly circles at Stillpoint are fully secular and welcome people of every faith and none.
Yes. Individual and couples therapy and one-to-one meditation coaching are available in person in Portland or by encrypted video, provided you are physically located in our state at the time of the session.
Yes. Please give at least 24 hours’ notice to cancel or reschedule an individual or couples session without paying the session fee. Where schedules allow, we will try to offer another time that week, or switch the hour to video.
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