Trauma Recovery Sessions

Have you endured serious traumas in your past

which have changed or altered you in the present?

Would you like to process through these experiences

and finally learn how to leave them in the past?

Would you like to live a happy life based on

YOUR rules and wishes versus the injuries

your perpetrators left you with?

If your answer is YES to any of these questions

or if you've even wondered what it might be like to

break free of your painful past, then This Program Is For You.

I am launching bi-weekly Trauma Recovery Sessions for adult individuals wanting to recover from:
Sexual Abuse
Physical Abuse
Emotional/Verbal/Mental Abuse
PTSD/War Trauma

My focus is to help you face the harmful physical and emotional memories and impacts of your trauma with POWER.
Your goal is to emerge a happier and more well-adjusted person free to live your life as you choose.

Sessions will be held every Monday and Thursday, will last 50 minutes each. Please contact me at 972-567-5000 for fee information and to schedule your appointments.

Managed Care: A Personal Balancing Act

I find that managed care has only created a way for us as consumers, as well as our deserving practitioners, to feel exploited. I'm sure many of you may agree with me.

I have encountered many clients in great need of counseling who feel they must take the managed care route to pay for their therapy. I fully support this, especially when people pay a virtual second mortgage quarterly to be covered for a myriad of possible medical emergencies that may arise. Provided that the insurance companies do what they are supposed to do (file properly and justly and compensate the practitioner and/or patient as well when out-of-network benefits are utilized), everyone ends up happy, patients are well taken care of, and practitioners feel pride for a job well-done and well-appreciated for their expertise.

From personal experience and hearsay from colleagues as well as clients, sadly, this does not always happen. Many of the insurance companies, who seem to have acquired wells full of our money, beat around the proverbial bush, stall their payments, come up with reasons not to approve a patient who truly needs help, and sometimes never pay the practitioner at all.

This leaves patients without appropriate care, upset, and out of money. This also leaves practitioners devoid of their important clientele, bitter, and out of money.

My solution for this is to find a balance with my patients. I am not on any insurance company panels for the reasons I listed above. The heartache and turmoil it causes for all involved is, I believe, easily handled. I offer 2 very feasible options.

I am an out-of network provider. This means that if you have out-of-network benefits, then you can be reimbursed for a portion of my fees. I offer a detailed receipt including all codes and diagnoses potentially needed to approve your treatment. You may send in a copy of the receipt to the insurance company and receive their prompt reimbursement. I have seen this a very successful and more profitable way, for the patient, to deal with managed care.

One other thing I offer is a sliding scale fee schedule for patients with specific financial needs. Sliding scale fee schedule means that the fee is negotiated so as to get the patient the help they need, cut out the middle man, and help all parties feel appreciated and respected.

Just ask me. I'll get you the help you need.

Get Started!

Send me an email and ask the questions

you really want answers to!

I'll tell you exactly how you and I can

work together to fix your problem!

Email me at: karen.israel@gmail.com

New Year Discount!

To all my prospective clients:

For the month of January, I will be offering the initial diagnostic session at weekly session prices - a 20% discount!*

Get started with your New Year's Resolution to

Become Your Best Self!

*Please let me know you've seen this ad to get the discount.

Happy New Year!

Here's wishing you all a Happy New Year

and the opportunity to make it the best year yet!

-KRI