The best way to determine if you want to work with me is to take advantage of my complimentary ‘getting to know each other’ session. I believe that it is so important that you are able to trust your therapist that I offer this free session either in person, or over the phone, so you can get an idea of how it would be to work with me. I am not for every one and am the first to admit that there are some issues that I don’t work well with and if this is so, I will do my best to offer other referrals for you. (For couples and families, I will do a complimentary phone session with the key person to determine what the next step should be.)
For your complimentary session please contact Cindy at 310-890-9831, or email: cindy@cindykludt.com to set up the appointment.
As a Marriage and Family Therapist, my focus is on relationships. So whether or not I work with individuals or some other mixture of people, my focus is always on how the issue is impacting relationships with the family, work, or the relationship with the Self.
Why you would choose psychotherapy over coaching is when you feel that you have an inner conflict that causes you emotional pain, anxiety, depression, low self worth, addictive behavior or obsessive/compulsive behaviors and you want to figure out WHY you feel the way you do and do more analyzing of the issues. You also may want to work on uncovering past emotional and psychological hurts, bring them forward and you want help in feeling the repressed emotions. So, the work is more about how the past impacts the present.
You also may want to use psychotherapy because you have a good insurance policy that pays for psychotherapy and you have an appropriate diagnosis that would allow you to use your insurance. 
HOW IT WORKS
- Individual Therapy
60 min. session – $125
50 min. session – $100
45 min. session – $75 - Couple & Family Therapy
60 minute sessions – $125
90 minute session – $150 (to encourage more useful longer sessions) - Groups
90 minute sessions – $40 (If pay entire month up front, it is $35 per group session) - Tele-classes have fees based on the individual class and will be given with the announcement of the classes.
Sessions under 60 minutes will not be given for couples and families.
Payments
Office visits are paid at time of service with cash or check. If you prefer to use a credit card, we can make arrangements for payment before the session via PayPal.
Phone sessions are billed through PayPal.
Tele-classes are billed through PayPal.
Groups are paid at time of service, unless we make prior arrangements. Each group session is paid for by each participant whether they physically are present or not. This is done in order to keep the group integrity in tact. If a group falls on a holiday, there will be no group and no charge.
Cindy is licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of California, therefore, she cannot do telephone sessions as a psychotherapist outside of California. However, if you are not within California, you can have coaching sessions over the phone if that is appropriate (see Cindy’s Coaching Services).
