Willow & Sage Counseling

Our Counseling Philosophy

At Willow & Sage Counseling, we believe in creating a safe and welcoming space where our clients will feel secure in exploring their innermost thoughts and emotions, and where they can understand the stories that have been governing their lives. We work to meet our clients where they are, focusing on their individual needs, and assisting our clients to understand that they have the ability to make the changes they are seeking to make. While we work together with our clients to address maladaptive narratives that are creating emotions, such as shame, guilt, unworthiness, and sadness, we also work to promote our client’s self-trust, autonomy and independence, so that they will have the courage to change, grow, and develop new, more adaptive narratives that will bring a sense of purpose, happiness, and peace.

At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how my story is going to end.

MISSION & VISION STATEMENT

Mission Statement:
Our mission at Willow & Sage Counseling is to provide inclusive, authentic, and compassionate counseling services to help promote individual growth and improved mental health. We strive to create a safe and trustworthy space that will allow our clients to feel empowered to explore their own strengths and resiliencies, as well as their innermost challenges, without fear of stigma or judgment.
Vision Statement
We are a company that values inclusion and has a passion for self-improvement. We work from a place of curiosity in order to collaborate with our clients. We work hard to provide a safe space where our client can trust in our authenticity and knowledge, so that they may feel free to be vulnerable to the process of change.

OUR VALUES

Trust

Trust is a difficult thing to gain and an easy thing to lose. We at Willow & Sage Counseling consider trust our utmost priority, which is why we take confidentiality and privacy very seriously, and why we tailor our services to fit each of our clients’ needs.

Integrity

We strongly uphold moral and ethical principles in our daily practice and in the delivery of services. Because our clients entrust their mental health treatment to our professional care, we strive to provide counseling services that meet or exceed industry codes and standards.

Sensitivity

We appreciate and respect diversity and cultural differences of our clients, and take into account the many multidimensional aspects of their lives when delivering services. We strive to provide services that reflect our clients’ uniqueness and individuality, and to do so in a sensitive and caring manner.

Empathy

We desire to understand and help our clients gain insight into who they are and why they are hurting. Rather than seeing our clients as problems to solve, we see our clients as dynamic people living out important stories. We strive to see beyond diagnoses and managing symptoms, and instead are genuinely interested in identifying with the perspectives from which they approach life, and to have a sense of their emotions as they relate to their needs.

Inclusion

We value every client’s story, experience, and perspective as unique, and we strive to provide a professional, friendly, and inclusive environment in which our clients can feel safe and welcomed.

Hope

Hope is one of our most powerful emotions, and can provide us with incredible strength, spur us into action, and help us create opportunities. Hope helps to reduce feelings of helplessness and stress, increase happiness, enhance coping, and improves quality of life. We believe that providing hope to our clients in their time of struggle is extraordinarily important to the therapeutic process.

Collaboration

We believe that we make the most progress with our clients when we work together to find solutions.

STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES

Willow & Sage Counseling is a mental health practice that continually strives to provide counseling services in a way that doesn’t discriminate on the basis of religion/creed, age, race, class, sex, gender, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status.

GOOD FAITH ESTIMATE

In order to comply with section 2799B-6 of the public health service act, the following information has been provided:

You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your medical and mental health 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 expected charges for medical services, including psychotherapy services.

You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency healthcare services, including psychotherapy services.

You can ask your health care provider, and any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule a 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 http://www.cms.gov/nosurprises.

The problem is the problem. The person is not the problem.

– Michael White & David Easton