Individual Therapy

You understand the pattern. You are ready for it to stop running your life.

Individual psychotherapy for high-capacity adults who want to change recurring patterns in relationships, identity, anxiety, trauma, pressure, grief, and major life transitions.

Simply Midori is a psychology firm with a team of licensed therapists who share a belief that meaningful change often requires more than understanding what is happening. We work to understand what keeps a pattern going and intervene at the level where it is being maintained.

6 Licensed Clinicians 90 to 120 Minute Sessions $300 Ongoing Complimentary Initial Session

Request a Complimentary Initial Session → See What the First Session Is Like

You do not need to choose a therapist before reaching out. There is no obligation to continue after your initial session.

Prefer email? Email Stephanie directly →

Looking for couples therapy? Explore Couples Therapy →

Looking for coaching, advisory, or another individual service? Explore Individual Work →

When Insight Has Not Been Enough

Knowing why you do it does not always make it stop.

Many people who come to Simply Midori are already highly self-aware. They have reflected, talked, achieved, problem-solved, and often understand exactly where a pattern came from. The frustrating part is that understanding the pattern and being free of it are not the same thing.

I know why I do it. I still keep doing it.

I keep losing myself in relationships I care about.

Everyone can depend on me. I do not know how to stop carrying everything.

My life looks successful, but I do not feel like myself inside it.

Something that happened a long time ago still has too much influence over what happens now.

The life that got me here no longer feels like the life I want to keep living.

90–120

Minutes · Typical Individual Session

A Different Way of Structuring Therapy

Therapy should have enough time for the work.

Extended sessions are not an upgrade or add-on. They are part of how Simply Midori practices therapy.

Meaningful psychological work does not always fit neatly inside a traditional 50-minute hour. More time allows you and your therapist to settle into the work, understand what is happening beneath the immediate problem, follow what emerges, and reach a more natural stopping point.

Longer does not mean pushing harder for the sake of intensity. It means giving the work enough room to unfold without constantly racing the clock.

90 to 120 minutes Typical ongoing session

$300 Full extended session

Complimentary Initial 90 to 120 minute session

Request a Complimentary Initial Session →

Beneath the Presenting Problem

Different problems can be maintained by the same deeper system.

You may arrive because of a relationship, panic, burnout, grief, perfectionism, a major decision, or a crisis of identity or faith. The visible problem matters, but it may not tell us everything we need to know.

We may also need to understand what your nervous system expects, what you believe you must do to remain safe or loved, which roles you learned to occupy, what emotions have never fully been processed, and what happens inside you when you attempt to behave differently.

Being useful may once have helped you belong. Achievement may have created safety. Staying agreeable may have protected important relationships. Reading the room may have helped you avoid conflict. Controlling emotion may have helped you keep functioning.

Those strategies developed for reasons. The question is whether they are still serving the life you are trying to build.

A strategy can help you survive one chapter and quietly begin governing the next.

What does your nervous system expect?

What do you believe you must do to remain safe, loved, or accepted?

What role have you learned to play?

What happens inside you when you choose differently?

What Therapy May Address

We work with the whole system, not only the symptom.

Therapy may begin with one problem. The work often reveals how several parts of a person's life are connected.

Relationships & Attachment

Reassurance seeking, overgiving, fear of abandonment, emotional distance, betrayal, recurring relationship patterns, and learning to remain yourself while staying connected to others.

Identity & Self-Trust

Learning what you want, trusting your own perception, reducing self-abandonment, making decisions without excessive external validation, and separating who you are from what you produce.

Past Experiences & the Nervous System

Developmental trauma, attachment injuries, betrayal, panic, shutdown, hypervigilance, painful memories, and responses that continue long after the original experience has passed.

Boundaries & Over-Responsibility

Caretaking, rescuing, difficulty saying no, guilt when disappointing others, chronic responsibility, and relationships organized around usefulness.

Performance & Pressure

Perfectionism, impostor feelings, fear of evaluation, high-functioning anxiety, panic under pressure, and the experience of competence disappearing precisely when it matters most.

Grief & Major Transitions

Divorce, loss, career shifts, parenthood, leadership transitions, relocation, success that no longer feels satisfying, and the space between an old identity and whatever comes next.

Meaning, Faith & Purpose

Questions of calling, identity, faith, church experiences, spiritual conflict, purpose, and what a meaningful life looks like when old answers no longer feel sufficient.

The Therapeutic Relationship Matters

Six clinicians. You do not have to choose alone.

Simply Midori's therapists bring different backgrounds, clinical strengths, areas of focus, and ways of working. What they share is a commitment to looking beyond the immediate symptom and understanding the combination of experiences, emotions, relationships, beliefs, nervous-system responses, identity, and behavior that may be maintaining the problem.

Joshua Doumani

MA, LCPC

Kelly McCauley

MA, LCPC

Victoria O'Connor

AM, LCSW

Michael Lang

MA, LCPC

Tiffany Sanchez

MA, LPC

Joseph Rubin

MA, LCPC

Meet Our Therapists → Request a Complimentary Initial Session

Not sure who fits? You do not need to decide before contacting us. Stephanie can help coordinate a therapist based on location, availability, areas of focus, and what you are looking for.

A Shared Clinical Lens

Insight matters. But insight alone is rarely enough.

Our therapists bring different training and perspectives to the work. What we share is a commitment to understanding change at more than one level. Depending on what you need, therapy may involve emotion, nervous-system responses, past experiences, beliefs and meaning, identity, relationships, behavior, or several of these at once.

Stabilize

Create enough safety and regulation for meaningful work to happen.

See the Pattern

Understand what keeps happening, when it activates, and what function it serves.

Process

Work with unresolved emotion, painful experiences, attachment injuries, and protective responses.

Reconstruct

Revisit beliefs, meanings, roles, and identities that help keep the old pattern intact.

Practice

Create change through different choices, relationships, boundaries, behaviors, and repetition.

Before You Begin

You should know what therapy involves before you contact us.

Your initial session is a full clinical session. We begin with what brought you in, what feels stuck, what you have already tried, and what you want to be different.

You do not need to arrive with the perfect explanation. Figuring out what is actually happening is part of the work.

Virtual therapy availability:
Our clinical team currently serves clients in Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, New York, California, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Arkansas, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maine, and Connecticut. Therapist availability varies by state, licensure, specialty, availability, and fit.

Initial Session

Complimentary

90 to 120 minutes of real clinical time.

Ongoing Session Length

Approximately 90 to 120 minutes

Ongoing Individual Therapy

$300 per extended session

Format

Secure virtual therapy

Payment

Private pay

HSA and FSA accepted.

Insurance

Superbills available

For clients seeking possible out-of-network reimbursement.

Commitment

No obligation to continue

Use the initial session to experience the work and determine fit.

Faith & Spirituality

You do not have to choose between taking your psychology seriously and taking your faith seriously.

If faith matters to you, it can have a legitimate place in therapy.

For clients who want faith included, we can help connect you with a therapist whose approach makes room for Christian faith, spiritual questions, church experiences, calling, doubt, grief, forgiveness, identity, and the ways religious beliefs may have shaped relationships and the self.

Faith is never assumed or imposed.

For some clients, spirituality becomes an important part of therapy. For others, it does not enter the work at all.

Starting Should Be Simple

You do not need to choose the right therapist or explain your entire life before reaching out.

A few sentences about what you are looking for and where you are located are enough to begin.

Tell us what you are looking for.

Complete a short inquiry with basic contact information, your location, and a brief description of what you would like help with. You do not need to share sensitive clinical details at this stage.

We help identify the right fit.

Stephanie, our practice coordinator, can answer practical questions and help coordinate a therapist based on location, availability, areas of focus, and what you are looking for.

Meet your therapist, then decide.

Your complimentary initial session gives you 90 to 120 minutes of real clinical time to begin understanding what is happening and experience what it is like to work together. After that, you can decide whether continuing feels right.

Request a Complimentary Initial Session →

Prefer email? Email Stephanie directly →

Stephanie typically responds the same business day.

A Few Practical Questions

What you may still want to know.

Can you work with me where I live?

Our clinical team currently serves clients in Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, New York, California, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Arkansas, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maine, and Connecticut. Because therapist licenses and availability vary, Stephanie can help identify which clinicians are available in your location.

What if I am not sure therapy is the kind of support I need?

You do not have to decide before reaching out. Simply Midori also works with individuals through executive coaching, personal advisory, and other psychologically informed engagements. Stephanie can help clarify which path fits what you are looking for, or you can explore Individual Work →

Do you accept insurance?

Simply Midori is a private-pay practice. HSA and FSA payments are accepted. Superbills can also be provided for clients who want to pursue possible out-of-network reimbursement through their insurance provider.

Do you also provide couples therapy?

Yes. Couples Therapy is a separate clinical service focused on the relationship itself and the patterns occurring between partners. Explore Couples Therapy →

Begin Here

You do not need another perfect explanation. You need a place to begin.

Start with a brief message. Stephanie can help coordinate the right therapist, and your complimentary initial session gives you enough time to begin understanding what is actually happening. You do not have to commit to ongoing therapy before you know whether the relationship and approach feel right.

Request a Complimentary Initial Session →

90 to 120 minutes · Complimentary initial session · No obligation to continue

Stephanie typically responds the same business day. Prefer email? Email Stephanie directly →

Looking for couples therapy? Explore Couples Therapy →
Looking for executive coaching, personal advisory, or another individual service? Explore Individual Work →