There isn't one single door to walk through and get help
You’ve asked your friends. You’ve asked your neighbors. You’ve asked your friends’ neighbors. You’ve asked your neighbors’ friends. You’ve asked the people at church, the community, random strangers you come across in the community. And yet it’s still impossible to find a therapist.
Maybe you even started with a therapist because they say they take your insurance, and then you start with them and they don’t take your very specific insurance. You work through the list that the insurance gives you, and you come up blank every time. There you are, just left over and over and over again.
Another phone call. and another.
It’s exhausting to look and you’re ready to give up
Even us therapists have had some difficulties with this from time to time. Sorting through websites, Psychology Today profiles, or other profiles just to figure out if someone is an expert or they’ve listed that experience because they worked with one client one time and are trying to get the referral from you rather than making sure you are the best fit for them.
Or so it seems.
You’ve become your own guide to the mental health system, or you’re relying on your closest friends as you avoid another episode of crying into your arms, feeling hopeless, lost, and confused and overwhelmed.
You've been lost in a system that wasn't built to be navigated by you.
Today is the day where this ends because you haven’t found another therapist looking to just see if you’re a good fit for them.
You’ve wandered onto the path that you needed the most and least expected: a mental health professional willing to do an intake with you and try to point you in the right direction.
Let me introduce myself……….
Let me introduce myself……….
tim kelly, lCSW
licensed clinical social worker
Assessment and referral proffessional
raging against the machine
Howdy hey, weary traveler.
I’ve been all over the care spectrum; outpatient, IOP/PHP, Residential treatment, and emergency department crisis care. I’ve seen a lot, loved it a lot, and learned a very simple truth.
its not easy to get mental health care. And i’m here to change it.
My work in the ER in Crisis Care has helped me became an advocate and educator on the mental health care system, finding niche referrals, and raging against the frustrations that the us healthcare system has left us with right now.
and now i’m bringing the same energy to my outpatient office.
My assessments are meant for those who need help, but don’t need the ER. You know you need help, but you aren’t in that space that the time in the hospital is needed. Maybe its a therapist once or twice a week, maybe its something more intensive and you aren’t sure where to start.
Just show up and i’ll help you get to where you need to go.
It’s really that simple. schedule below, we’ll do a comprehensive intake, and you’ll get several referrals for a good fit therapy, provider, or program that can help with what you’re experiencing.
It’s really that simple. schedule below, we’ll do a comprehensive intake, and you’ll get several referrals for a good fit therapy, provider, or program that can help with what you’re experiencing.
Insurnace and Costs
multiPlan PHCS
Aetna, Cofinity, and FirstHealth
Colorado Access Medicaid
SANA Health Benefits
Lyra Health
And if we don’t take your insurance?
And you don’t have out of network benefits?
You’re assessment is free
we truly do care more about getting you to the right provider rather than profit. We’re one part of the bridge to a well community.
Here how it works
- You finally hit the place where you aren’t sure where to turn to, but know you need the help.
- You found me, a therapist Who wants to help you get to the therapist, prescriber, or program that will best serve you. (Congrats! You’ve already made it to step two)
- You’ll think about it, contemplate it, because it sounds too good to be true (It’s not – pinky promise).
- You schedule an intake below. What you see available in the calendar is what I have available for intakes. I’ve left my evening slots open just to reach the people like you, either functioning during the day but barely hanging on, or having all these responsibilities and things that you have to accomplish and are trying to squeeze your mental health in the evenings.
- After you schedule myself or one of my admins. We’ll reach out to you to get the necessary intake paperwork complete. This is very important so that we can skip over some of the generic information that is needed for an intake of any kind and get to the more detailed, oriented assessment part.
- You leave that session feeling seen, heard, understood. I’m confident that I will be able to get you at least two different referrals for programs that will be the fit that you need.
- I’ll work my network, both the existing one and the people that I trust, to find those promised endpoints for you.
- I send them your way. Some clinicians I know really well or are part of the cooperative that I am in, and I can get you scheduled for your first session. Other people that I work with will have to reach out to schedule a technical intake. For those situations, I am happy to send my intake paperwork to them so you can skip a good portion of what we’ve already gone through, or I will print my intake for you and you can take it with you.
Schedule your Consult Below
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common questions
The short answer? Yes.
The Long Answer:
I am In network with
- Colorado Access Medicaid
- multiPlan PHCS
- Aetna, Cofinity, and FirstHealth
- SANA Health Benefits
- LyraHealth
For all other insurances, you may have out-of-network benefits, which means insurance will reimburse you for a portion of our session cost. I’ve partnered with Thrizer to handle the out-of-network process automatically for you. With Thrizer, you’ll only pay a copay for our sessions instead of paying my full fee and waiting for reimbursements. This typically allows clients to save an average of 70% upfront on sessions.
During our intake process, I can help you verify if you have out-of-network benefits and how much your co-insurance would be.
Additionally: If you have Lyra Health EAP, your individual therapy may be free for the first 6–12 sessions, then covered by insurance afterwards.
Depends on if you’re using insurance.
What I bill for is $170 for individual therapy sessions and $75 for group therapy sessions. If you’re using insurance, you’ll see a reimbursement for most of that amount, depending on your plan.
How do I determine the fee? I have a specific number of slots at each price point to make it as equitable as possible. Feel free to ask me what’s available—and if you have the courage to negotiate with me, you might be surprised at what you can get the price down to.
This does not include the use of EAP or your insurance plans with Thrizer, which often helps very much. I’m also willing to do single case agreements, where your insurance considers me “in-network”—but there are no guarantees on this being successful.
It sure is. But how much are you willing to invest in your mental health?
I help all kinds of people. If you’re a:
- People pleaser or need hider
- Minimizer of your own emotions or experiences
- Someone who needs more support than just 1:1 therapy
- “I-don’t-know-how-to-ask-for-help-and-don’t-want-to-burden-everyone-with-my-shit-because-what-I-have-is-traumatic-and-hurt-me-so-I-don’t-want-to-hurt-others” type of person
Then I’m here for you.
But if it helps, I’ll write down some different populations and people I’ve worked with before:
Populations:
- Business workers and professionals stuck in the daily grind who have lost who they are
- EMTs and paramedics, firefighters, law enforcement, ex-military, nurses, and doctors who are burned out from patient care and want to learn how to care for themselves
- Students, teachers, and education professionals who are exhausted by the system they work in
- Exhausted tech workers with demanding jobs and poor work boundaries
- And many more…
As far as a diagnosis goes, they tend to be focused on getting your bills paid by the insurance companies and don’t quite fit current mental health needs. So fuck Big Insurance and Healthcare.
But many people I meet and work with carry or find themselves meeting criteria for:
- Depression & Anxiety
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- PTSD
- Complex PTSD
- In Recovery from Addiction
- ADHD
- Other forms of neurodiversity