Payment

Akula Therapy is private pay (out of network provider). 

The cost is $150 a session. You may use any form of payment, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), or your provider may reimburse you (please check with them, a suberbill can be provided and will need to have a diagnosis on it). If cost is a financial barrier for you, there are limited sliding scale spots with the support of the көмек fund (prioritised for BIPOC/LGBTQIA+ folks). 

Benefits of private pay: your information stays private because it’s not submitted to your insurance, you don’t need a diagnosis that could negatively impact your life/opportunities, there is no time/session limit, some insurance plans have high deductibles and may require people to pay a session fee that could be as much or higher than private pay. 

Insurance: If private pay isn’t possible, I am also contracted to work with Forward Bound Counseling (https://www.forwardboundcounseling.com/) and am in network with many major insurances. If you choose to use insurance, you will be a client for Forward Bound, NOT Akula Therapy and they are NOT interchangeable. This will require an official DSM-5 diagnosis and may limit amount of sessions long term. I am currently in network with: HP, Cigna, Preferred One, SCHA, Medicaid, BCBS, Ucare,  and Primewest;

I am in the credentialing process to get in network with United health, Optum, UMR, Medica, and possibly Hennepin Health.

Please check with your insurance if they cover psychotherapy sessions, if there’s a limit on sessions, if you have a deductible, and if you have a copay.

The United States is the only developed country that does not have universal healthcare..these are my feelings on that:

Visual description: Me sending off two middle fingers to the healthcare systems -and to the many other oppressive societal systems/constructs we live in-