Psychotherapy
- Online Psychiatry · MI · CA · WA · OR · NM
Psychotherapy, sometimes called talk therapy, is a collaborative conversation with a trained mental health provider. At Brain Bath, therapeutic support connects with your broader psychiatric care, so your history, current concerns, and treatment goals are considered together. Sessions take place by secure video from a private space where you feel comfortable. You don’t need a polished story. You can begin with what’s on your mind.
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Understanding Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy helps you explore the thoughts, emotions, relationships, and experiences that affect your wellbeing. It addresses a different part of care than medication management: where medication reviews symptoms, response, and side effects, therapy explores what is happening in your life and helps you develop insight and coping strategies. Therapeutic support may be part of care for concerns such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, bipolar disorder, and panic symptoms. When both are appropriate, a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner considers how they can support your individual goals.
What Your Sessions Will Look Like
- Bring What’s on Your Mind
Start with a recent experience, a recurring feeling, or something you’re trying to understand. If you’re not sure what to talk about, that’s okay too. Your provider helps you find a starting point, and early conversations clarify your story, concerns, and goals.
- Explore What’s Underneath
Together we notice connections between situations, thoughts, feelings, and responses. We consider which patterns are helping and which may be making things harder, whether that is stress, conflict in relationships, grief, or the emotional weight of a health condition.
- Find Something to Carry Forward
Each conversation aims to leave you with a perspective or practical approach you can bring into daily life, such as a coping strategy, a different way of responding, or a clearer next step. Your provider guides the discussion while making room for what feels most relevant to you.
- Adjusting the Focus Together
Over time, we check in on what’s useful and adjust the focus as your needs change. Before each visit, it can help to note what has stayed on your mind, choose a quiet, private place, and check your internet, camera, and microphone before connecting.
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Who This Care Is For
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Adults feeling stressed, overwhelmed, burned out, or low, who want to talk through ways to cope that fit daily life.
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People noticing familiar patterns in conflict, expectations, or relationships that keep repeating.
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Anyone adjusting to grief, loss, or a life change, or to living with a mental health condition, chronic illness, or a concussion or brain injury.
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Adults located in Michigan, California, Washington, Oregon, or New Mexico who prefer the privacy of meeting by video.
How Patients May Benefit
Complementary Services We Provide
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Psychiatric Evaluation: a careful review of your symptoms and history to clarify what you are experiencing.
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Medication Management: reviews symptoms, medication response, and side effects, with adjustments when appropriate.
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Diagnostic Clarification: helps sort out overlapping concerns such as ADHD, anxiety, depression, or mood changes.
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Care Alongside Your Current Therapist: keep seeing your therapist while Brain Bath provides psychiatric care.
Pricing for Psychotherapy
- Online Psychiatry · MI · CA · WA · OR · NM
Psychotherapy at Brain Bath is part of an individualized psychiatric care plan. For private pay, an initial psychiatric evaluation is $300 and a follow-up visit is $150, with sliding-scale options available. We accept a range of insurance plans across Michigan, California, Washington, Oregon, and New Mexico, subject to benefit verification. Visit our Insurance & Pricing page or email [email protected] to confirm the appointment type, fees, and benefits that apply to your care.
Why Patients Choose Our Practice
Brain Bath was founded by Noah Freiburger, DNP, PMHNP-BC, CBIS, a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Certified Brain Injury Specialist. His clinical background spans inpatient and outpatient psychiatry and care for people with severe and persistent mental illness. He also serves as Medical Director for Mid Michigan Recovery Services and is on staff at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.