Is ISDR right for me?

ISDR therapists do not impose religious or anti-religious value systems on clients. We're not Christian counselors, LDS-integrated therapists, or biblical-integrated practitioners. Faith and existential topics often come up in our work, and they're welcome. Our faith-transition and mixed-faith couples specialties exist for clients navigating exactly that. The distinction is that we don't push you towards or away from religion — we work with whatever your relationship to faith currently is.

We're not set up to deliver court-mandated therapy or to provide forensic services — custody evaluations, fitness-for-duty assessments, competency evaluations, or other psychological legal work. These engagements require specific training, documentation workflows, and scope of practice different from ours.

If you or someone you love is in active crisis, please reach out for stabilization care first. Call 988 for the national Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. We can be a good fit for ongoing work after stabilization, but we're not a crisis-response practice.

ISDR is not a substance use disorder treatment center, addiction recovery program, or intensive outpatient provider. Substance use can show up as a clinical context — a partner in recovery, family-of-origin history, or processing the aftermath of an overdose. That's different from substance use being the thing you need treated. If addiction recovery is the primary clinical focus you need, we are not a good fit.

Some of our clinicians work with Headway to accept insurance for individual therapy on diagnosable conditions (depression, anxiety, etc.). See the fees page for clinician-by-clinician details. For relational therapy (couples, relationship, and family) and most individual therapy, we're a self-pay specialty practice. ISDR doesn't accept insurance for relational work because insurance either doesn't cover it or reimburses too little to be sustainable. If you need insurance-only therapy across modalities, we may not be the right fit.