Cost is one of the most common obstacles to starting therapy. This is a private-pay option for people with insurance carriers that are not in-network and our standard fee is a barrier to care. Reduced fee sessions are provided by a Smith College graduate-level clinician completing a supervised Master’s in Social Work clinical placement with Somatic Psychotherapy Group.

$50 for a 55-minute Individual Session*

$75 for a 60-minute Couples Session*

*Sessions are provided by an advanced MSW intern completing a supervised clinical placement with Somatic Psychotherapy Group.

This is a private pay only arrangement, separate from our insurance-based services, intended for people who are uninsured, out-of-network, facing a high deductible, or otherwise unable to take on our standard fee.

Sessions are available in person at our Northampton office or virtually within Massachusetts.

This Option is a Good fit for you if:

- The cost of therapy — not the idea of it — has been the barrier

- You're uninsured, between plans, or your insurance doesn't cover mental health the way you need it to

- You're comfortable working with a clinician who is still completing graduate training while under ongoing clinical supervision

- You're looking for individual or couples support and don't need a specific licensed specialist

- You can work within a defined timeframe — this placement runs through April 30, 2027, with a planned transfer or referral at the end

Meet Your Clinician

Isabella is a second-year graduate student at the Smith College School for Social Work, offering individual and couples therapy at a reduced fee under clinical supervision. She is drawn to working with people carrying trauma, anxiety, and the ordinary weight of life transitions — and to the ways difficulty is held in the body long before it finds language.

Her interest in somatic work grew out of a background in dance and mindful movement. For four years she led Embody, a movement group at Smith College, teaching trauma-informed, consent-based embodied practice to LGBTQIA+ students and survivors of sexual assault, and training fifteen new instructors as the group grew past a hundred members. A phrase she often returned to with her students: sometimes, in order to get out of your head, you have to get into your body.

Her clinical training has been at Pa'lante Transformative Justice in Holyoke, where she carried a supervised caseload of individual clients, co-facilitated a weekly support group, and worked with young people navigating trauma — including racial and systemic trauma — through relational, strengths-based care, de-escalation, and circle practice. She brings a low-pathologizing, structurally aware lens to the work: an understanding that distress is often a reasonable response to unreasonable conditions.

Isabella holds a B.A. in Psychology and Public Policy from Smith College, where she was a Kahn Institute Fellow.

Fees & Getting Started

Reduced fee sessions are private pay only. We are not able to bill insurance for these sessions, provide a superbill, or issue documentation for out-of-network reimbursement.

This is a time-limited training placement, running through April 30, 2027. We name that timeframe at the start of care and work with it openly, with a thoughtful transfer or referral plan as the placement winds down.

Reduced fee openings are limited and managed through a waitlist - Please fill out the form below.