Find Peace with Stuart EMDR

At Stuart EMDR, we support sobriety. While our ambient culture embraces mind-altering substances more and more, we at Stuart EMDR are unabashedly sober-minded. We want to do what we can to help you learn the facts and choose sobriety before addiction takes hold. We can help you understand the very real risks of substance use, overcome trauma behind your urge to use, and develop healthy coping skills so you no longer want or need your drug of choice to cope. If in-residence treatment is necessary, we have contacts at the ready who can help you get the help you need today.

Stuart EMDR does not accept insurance, because we value your privacy and cannot agree to share the amount and type of information insurance companies require for payment. Likewise, we cannot prevent insurance companies from sharing or selling personal information to other entities. Stuart EMDR accepts private pay clients out of respect for your privacy. 

Standard 50-minute sessions are $175. Intensive sessions, which are 2 hours and 15 minutes long, are $425. Melinda's calendar books out, so we recommend making a series of 8 session appointments. You can always change them if necessary through the Client Portal. 

At Stuart EMDR, we are committed to helping our neighbors in need. As such, we have a designated number of scholarship slots throughout the year that we offer at a reduced fee to clients who are experiencing significant financial distress. To help the greatest number of people we can, we limit these scholarships to 8 sessions per individual; the scholarship is renewable, if there is a clinical necessity that cannot be met by other clinicians or community resources. These scholarship positions fill up quickly, so there may be a waitlist, just as there is often a waitlist for full-fee new clients as well. Scholarship recipients are generally referred through their parish priest.

In addition to our own scholarship program, Stuart EMDR  is proud to also partner with the Agape Wellness Collective to provide referrals to Orthodox Christian therapists regardless of ability to pay. Please visit www.Agape-WellnessCollective.org for more information.

It is true, our schedule fills up very quickly, and we often have a waitlist of clients waiting for our services. We are happy to talk to all potential new clients with a 15-minute Initial Client Consultation phone call, which you can schedule in the Client Portal. If we do not have availability to take on new clients at this time, we will offer referrals to trusted colleagues who might have current availability and/or we may offer to place you on our waitlist to contact when our schedule has sufficient availability for a new client. 

If you are a past client and want to come in for a session or two, please text or email Melinda and ask to be put on our list to contact in the event of cancellations. Thank you!