Rates and Insurance

Rate $165 per 50-minute session

Insurance Services may be covered in part by your health insurance or employee benefit plan. Please check your coverage carefully by asking the following questions:

  • Do I have mental health insurance benefits?

  • What is my deductible and has it been met?

  • How many sessions per year does my health insurance cover?

  • What is the out-of-network coverage for therapy?

  • Is approval required from my primary care physician?

A Superbill can be provided to any client who would like to submit this to insurance for reimbursement

Payment Cash, check, and credit cards including HSA are acceptable methods for payment.

Cancellation Policy If you do not show up for your scheduled therapy appointment, and you have not notified me at least 24 hours in advance, you will be required to pay a $70 late cancellation fee.

Schedule Please contact me to schedule an appointment or ask questions at 970-679-0268 or lauragrotenhuis@gmail.com.

Faith in Counseling

Not everyone’s spiritual life will come up in counseling. But for people who have an active spiritual life, it is important that you have a counselor that can address spiritual needs and the strengths that it can bring to the counseling process.

I am a Christian, but not the kind that gives simple answers to complex questions. Too often we hear just pray about it or it must be God’s will from well-meaning family or friends. While that may be part of the answer, it usually doesn’t do justice to the issues with which we are struggling.

Life is complicated, the Christian life is complicated, and sometimes understanding God is complicated. I love helping people unravel difficult situations to see how those can help us to learn more about ourselves, the people we care about, and ultimately grow our relationship with God. In Proverbs God promises that “If you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God” (Proverbs 2: 3-5) Thank goodness there is insight and understanding available to those that ask, but it is not always easy to find!

You might be asking, why might I need to see a counselor if I already have God? Counselors have specific education aimed at helping people to identify and talk about problems while heading toward solutions. Counselors also can teach skills on things like: tolerating distress, understand our emotions and being relationally effective. These are all things that we can learn, but we need to learn the information before we can be really good at it.

The best things about having a Christian counselor is that being able to draw on the Bible and God for help. Paul describes this in 2 Corinthian 1:4, when he says “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God”. It is a unique privilege to be able to be an ambassador of Christ. If you have additional thoughts or questions about how faith and counseling fit together, please feel free to call me to talk further 970-679-0268 or email at lauragrotenhuis@gmail.com