This informed consent will give you information about my practice and our professional relationship. I appreciate the opportunity to assist you on your journey.
CONFIDENTIALITY I will maintain confidentiality and privacy of your transformational somatic sessions and my notes unless it is legally required to divulge specific information.
SCOPE OF PRACTICE AND PROCESS OF SOMATIC COACHING I utilize a variety of tools such as Brainspotting and Somatic Experiencing®. I have studied Coaching, Stress Symptom Resolution and Brainspotting with many trainers and am certified in Brainspotting and Somatic Experiencing. Although my scope of practice does include the resolution of stress symptoms and nervous system regulation, I am not a licensed therapist and this is not psychotherapy.
My focus is to assist you to come home to your most authentic self. We will be working with your nervous system, beliefs, imagination, patterns of thought and action and your hopes. My goal is to assist you to discover what brings you alive and to help you release what has been hindering your innate freedom.
All somatic therapeutic work, body awareness, somatic exercises, etc. is at a professional level.
We will work toward the goals that you create in your sessions. In addition to the work we do in my office, I may suggest things for you to do between sessions.
It is not in my scope of practice to work with certain diagnosis such as Borderline Personality, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, etc. If you have a mental health diagnosis, it is important that you let me know so we know whether you would benefit from working with me.
If either you or I feel your somatic therapy with me is complete, that you aren’t sufficiently benefiting from the work or that you need a therapeutic level of care from a licensed therapist, I have an ethical duty to communicate this with you.
INSURANCE I don't participate with insurance companies. I will provide an invoice if requested.
PAYMENT Payment is due by the end of each session by cash, check, Zelle or Venmo.
Rates/Late Cancellation/Missed Appointment A 24-hour cancellation policy applies to all sessions. My rates are listed at www.oceanmichelle.com.