Everyone has their own unique challenges.

we’ll find the path that is right for you.

Our sessions will be

  • Personalized

    Our initial sessions will be dedicated to assessing your current wellness and creating a personalized plan to fit your unique needs and goals.

  • Targeted

    Everyone has pain points when it comes to achieving wellness. We’’ll work closely with you to help identify and overcome your triggers.

  • Integrative

    Since achieving wellness is more than just weekly therapy sessions, WeI’ll be guiding you toward other helpful practices such as mindfulness training, homework assignments, and more.

BOOK YOUR FREE phone CONSULTATION.

A phone consultation gives you the opportunity to:

  • determine if now is the “right” time for therapy

  • understand the basics of therapy

  • determine if we are the right fit for your needs or provide referrals to appropriate resources

Individual and families

  • In person sessions in East Memphis

  • Online sessions using Zoom

    • Sessions must be conducted in the state of Tennessee

    • Must have device available with audio and video capabilities

    • Must be in a safe place alone

Treatment Approaches

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychological treatment that has been demonstrated to be effective for a range of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug use problems, marital problems, eating disorders, and severe mental illness.

  • CBT treatment usually involves efforts to change thinking patterns. These strategies might include:

    Learning to recognize one’s distortions in thinking that are creating problems, and then to reevaluate them in light of reality.

    Gaining a better understanding of the behavior and motivation of others.

    Using problem-solving skills to cope with difficult situations.

    Learning to develop a greater sense of confidence in one’s own abilities.

    CBT treatment also usually involves efforts to change behavioral patterns. These strategies might include:

    Facing one’s fears instead of avoiding them.

    Using role playing to prepare for potentially problematic interactions with others.

    Learning to calm one’s mind and relax one’s body.

    Not all CBT will use all of these strategies. Rather, the therapist and client work together, in a collaborative fashion, to develop an understanding of the problem and to develop a treatment strategy.

    CBT places an emphasis on helping individuals learn to be their own therapists. Through exercises in the session as well as “homework” exercises outside of sessions, clients are helped to develop coping skills, whereby they can learn to change their own thinking, problematic emotions, and behavior.

    CBT therapists emphasize what is going on in the person’s current life, rather than what has led up to their difficulties. A certain amount of information about one’s history is needed, but the focus is primarily on moving forward in time to develop more effective ways of coping with life.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that is designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories.

  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.

    Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.

    EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.

    Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

  • Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a type of treatment designed to improve the relationship between a caregiver and the child. PCIT is also one of the most effective treatments known for children with behavior problems between the ages of 2 and 7 years.

  • This 16-20 session treatment will teach you the skills that professionals (such as psychologists, special education teachers, and family therapists) use to improve child behavior.

    The goals for PCIT are:

    Enhancing the relationship that you have with your child

    Improving your child's self-esteem

    Teaching your child new ways to manage and reduce their frustration and anger

    Helping your child develop new strategies for attending and organizing their work or play

    Helping your child mind you the first time you tell themmo to do something

    Teaching you alternative ways to manage your child's behavior now, and helping you problem solve ways to effectively manage your child's behavior in the future

    PCIT is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on enhancing the relationship between you and your child, increasing your child's self-esteem, reducing your child's frustration, and helping your child with organizational skills. The second part focuses on teaching your child listening and minding skills, using age-appropriate techniques to deal with your child's behavior, and problem solving.

    We recognize that many parents would like to start with the listening and minding skills. However, research and our experiences with families suggest that behavioral parent training works better when the relationship building skills are practiced first and the listening and minding skills are practiced second. When the relationship building aspects of treatment are done first, children are more likely to listen and mind with a positive attitude in the second part because they have learned to enjoy interacting with their parent and they want to please the parent.

FAQs

Do you take insurance?

Yes, we accept Aetna, Cigna, BCBS and UnitedHealthcare/Optum.

What if you don’t take my insurance?

We offer private pay and can also offer a “superbill” that you can submit to your insurance for possible reimbursement.

What if I don’t live in Memphis?

We offer telehealth sessions to anyone living within the state of Tennessee

What if I am not sure what i want out of therapy?

Schedule a free 15 minute phone consultation and we can see if this is a right fit for you.

Good faith estimate

Under Section 2799B-6 of the Public Health Services Act, health care providers and health care facilities are required to inform individuals who are not enrolled in a plan or coverage or a Federal health care program, or not seeing to file a claim with their plan or coverage both orally and in writing of their ability, upon request or at the time of scheduling health care items and services, to receive a "Good Faith Estimate" of expected charges. 

You have the right to receive a "Good Faith Estimate" explaining how much your medical care will cost. 

Under the law, health care providers need to give patients who don't have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the bill of medical items and services. 

  • You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency items or services. This includes related costs like medical tests, prescription drugs, equipment, and hospital fees,

  • Make sure your health care provider gives you a Good Faith Estimate in writing at least 1 business day before your medical service or item. You can also ask your health care provider, and any other provider you chose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule an item or service. 

  • If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill. 

  • Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate. For questions or more information, about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises

Fees

Camellia Counseling currently accepts Aetna, Cigna, BlueCross BlueShield, and UnitedBehavioral Health/Optum.

Upon request, we provide the necessary documentation and receipts that can be submitted to health insurers for reimbursement of your counseling session's fee. All clients are strongly encouraged to contact their health insurance providers prior to their first appointment to determine whether their policies includes out-of-network mental health benefits. 

Session Costs:

  • Individual Initial Assessment (first session) (50-60 minutes): $200

  • Individual Session Follow-up/Recurring (50-60 minutes): $150

  • Family Initial Assessment (first session) (50-60 minutes): $250

  • Family Session Follow-up/Recurring (50-60 minutes): $200