Frequently Asqued (looks fancier) Questions (FAQ)

Yes, as a matter of law now, due to the No Surprises Act.

We started to really hate that. We became clinicians to treat people and have the most advanced treatments, not to play games with moneys.

Plumbers charge a fee and get paid.

Mechanics charge a fee and get paid.

Usually they’re not saving or changing lives.

We save and change lives every day. We deserve our fee too, and usually it’s less than the plumber and the mechanic charges.

Plus, we believe that you get out of therapy what you get into it. If you’re operating under the illusion someone else is paying for it, you won’t be as committed to changing your life quickly.

We see faster results this way. So do our clients.

For monthly subscription appointments, if you miss your time, you forfeit that appointment. The cancellation fee, and not making up the session, is rolled into the reduced fee.

Late cancellations are not reimbursable by your insurance, by the way, if you’re sending them the bill.

If, instead, that isn’t done, we might do that in the first or second session. Then, after your session, we consult with each other on the things that you’re looking to accomplish, and develop a strategy to help you. We implement this strategy over several sessions.

We have a lot of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) going on, which offers structured skills for dealing with really difficult life situations. Staff are continually training in DBT. This therapy proposes that when people with strong emotions find themselves in invalidating environments, problems occur. It emphasizes teaching clients skillful, balanced approaches to life, moving away from extremes of thought, feeling, and behavior. It also is a non-judgmental therapy, and teaches being non-judgmental as one of the many skills. Other skills include staying present, tolerating distress, regulating emotions, and improving relationships. We offer a skills training group for learning the skills, and individual work to process individual concerns. The optimal thing to do is to do both, every week.

We’ve got us some serious Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) background. That one proposes that an evaluation of the accuracy and usefulness of our thoughts, and making some adjustments, can help us feel better and do better.

Dr. Shipon is a master trainer of pattern interruption techniques because of his own deep levels of training and experience with neurolinguistic programming (NLP), Ericksonian clinical hypnosis, master trainer experience in Reiki, and other techniques. Many of the offerings through Inner Wellth are influenced by his work, which has ties to short-term trauma resolution techniques.

Other approaches include insight-oriented therapy, family therapy, and alcohol and substance abuse counseling (we have two people with special licenses in that: W. Shawn Welty and Jackie Matacchiera). We also have several therapists with training in behavioral approaches with children and people with disabilities.

Another tip is that therapy is not always comfortable. While we have a very likable, warm, and engaging staff, it’s in the discomfort that you’ll get the most out of your therapy. If you can discuss difficult or uncomfortable things about your therapy with your therapist, it will be so much easier to do that with others in your life. This will get you further, faster — therapy can be a training ground for doing that. Let us help you through that. What we can guarantee is that we will be supportive of you in that process.

We have enough material to work with in this life, let alone all the other lives a person may have. Nope. Learned this one from our mentor Ron Klein. No, no. Nope.

Dr. Shipon watched all 178 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and liked when Captain Picard said to the replicator, “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.”

Actually, we teach patients how to do Reiki on themselves, in a non-traditional adaptation of the technique by Dr. Shipon, who is trained teacher of it since 1999. His book Reiki Psychology is available on Kindle.