Initial Counseling Intake Assessment

The intake is a structured clinical assessment and is required before ongoing counseling begins.

We'll cover your presenting concerns and relevant history; mental health, medical, family, substance use, and trauma history, along with your current symptoms and how they're affecting sleep, work, and relationships. I'll also complete a standard safety screening. Where clinically appropriate, this is where a diagnosis is established, which is what makes a super-bill usable for out-of-network reimbursement.

We'll finish by setting initial goals and agreeing on an approach and session frequency, and we'll go over informed consent, confidentiality and its limits, and practice policies.

You decide how much detail you go into, and anything you're not ready to discuss can wait.

Intake paperwork is sent in advance and should be completed before we meet.

53 minutes. Available only if you are physically located in South Carolina during the session.

Client's must be located in South Carolina.
Intake paperwork must be filled out prior to the appointment.