Discover the Art of Healing

Step into a space designed for deep clarity, real transformation, and the kind of emotional freedom you’ve been craving. Here, therapy isn’t clinical or cold: it’s intentional, soulful, and tailored to the way you move through the world. This is where you come to reconnect, rise, and remember who the hell you are.

Services we offer

  • Some concerns need more room than a traditional therapy hour can provide.

    Intensive Deep-Dive Sessions are extended 90- to 120-minute sessions for individuals or couples who want focused time to explore a complex issue without having to stop just as the important part begins.

    These sessions are especially useful when there are multiple layers to untangle, a major relationship decision to work through, a recurring pattern that needs closer examination, or a situation that feels too complicated to fit neatly into a standard session.

    Rather than rushing toward a quick solution, we slow the process down enough to understand what is actually happening underneath the surface.

    Deep-Dive Sessions may focus on:

    • Relationship crises or major decision points

    • Infidelity or betrayal

    • Chronic conflict or recurring patterns

    • Sexual or intimacy concerns

    • ENM or relationship-structure decisions

    • Trauma and relationship intersections

    • Family-of-origin dynamics

    • Complex emotional or relational situations

    • Clarifying what you want before making a major change

    These sessions are structured, focused, and collaborative. They are designed to create more space for exploration, pattern-mapping, and clarity when a standard session does not feel like enough.

    Deep-Dive Sessions are short-term and self-pay only.

  • Not every relationship problem requires both people in the room.

    Individual therapy can be a place to understand the patterns that shape how you connect, protect yourself, choose partners, set boundaries, respond to conflict, experience intimacy, and make sense of yourself inside relationships.

    You may be navigating attachment wounds, complicated family-of-origin dynamics, relational trauma, identity shifts, sexuality, betrayal, difficult relationship decisions, or patterns that keep repeating even when you understand them intellectually.

    Therapy can also help when anxiety, burnout, overthinking, shame, or old emotional wounds are affecting the way you show up in your relationships and in your own life.

    Our work is not just about symptom relief. It is about helping you understand what sits underneath the pattern, what keeps it going, and what needs to change for you to feel more grounded, clear, and connected to yourself.

    Common focus areas include:

    • Attachment and relationship patterns

    • Boundaries and people-pleasing

    • Family-of-origin dynamics

    • Relational and sexual trauma

    • Identity and sexuality

    • Betrayal and trust injuries

    • Relationship decision-making

    • Shame and self-worth

    • Anxiety and emotional regulation

    • Major life and relationship transitions

  • Whether you’re fighting all the time, shutting down, missing intimacy, or just feeling disconnected.. couples therapy can be the reset button.

    We blend Relational Life Therapy, Gottman, IFS, & Sex Therapy approaches to help you understand the real patterns beneath conflict, communicate clearly, rebuild trust, and create a relationship that feels alive, safe, and deeply connected again.

    For couples wanting to:

    • Improve communication

    • Heal emotional or sexual distance

    • Repair after betrayal or major conflict

    • Break toxic cycles

    • Build intimacy, safety & partnership

  • Sex isn’t “just physical” it’s emotional, relational, psychological, and deeply personal.

    We help individuals and couples explore sexual concerns without shame, create deeper intimacy, and reconnect with pleasure, confidence, and desire. This is a safe, affirming space for real conversations about sexuality, desire, and identity.

    Focus Areas:

    • Low/high libido mismatches

    • Sexual disconnection

    • Erectile concerns in collaboration with appropriate medical care

    • Desire and arousal issues

    • Performance anxiety

    • Erotic differences

    • Communication around sex

    • Consensual non-monogamy,

    • Polyamory

    • Kink

    • Pain, anxiety, or shame around sex

    • Orgasm difficulties

    • Rebuilding intimacy after trauma or relationship stress

  • Trauma does not always stay in the past.

    It can shape how safe you feel with other people, how you respond to conflict, what happens when someone gets too close, how you experience sex and intimacy, how you set boundaries, and what you believe you have to do to stay connected or protected.

    Complex trauma may come from childhood experiences, sexual trauma, unstable or unsafe relationships, addiction within the family system, repeated betrayal, coercive dynamics, emotional neglect, or other experiences that changed the way you learned to relate to yourself and others.

    Therapy helps make sense of the connection between what happened then and what is happening now.

    Our work may explore patterns of hypervigilance, shutdown, shame, emotional reactivity, dissociation, difficulty trusting, fear of abandonment, avoidance of intimacy, repeated relationship patterns, or feeling caught between wanting closeness and needing distance.

    The goal is not to erase your history. It is to help you understand it well enough that it no longer has to quietly run your relationships for you.

    Common focus areas include:

    • Complex and developmental trauma

    • Sexual trauma

    • Attachment injuries

    • Relational trauma and betrayal

    • Shame and identity

    • Emotional regulation

    • Boundaries and safety

    • Intimacy after trauma

    • Trauma-related sexual concerns

    • Repeating relationship patterns

    • Family-of-origin wounds

    • Rebuilding trust in yourself and others

  • For therapists who want clarity, depth, and growth in their clinical work.

    I offer supportive, insight-driven supervision and consultation for clinicians navigating trauma, couples work, relational dynamics, and complex client presentations.

  • Se ofrecen servicios terapéuticos culturalmente sensibles para adultos, parejas y familias hispanohablantes.

    Podemos ayudarte con:

    • Ansiedad, depresión, y estrés

    • Relaciones, familia, y matrimonio

    • Infidelidad, intimidad, y terapia sexual

    • Autoestima y sanación emocional

    • Identidad cultural y experiencias BIPOC

    La terapia es un espacio donde te puedes sentir visto/a, escuchado/a, y apoyado/a sin juicio; en tu idioma y desde tu realidad.

Fees & Insurance

Episkey Counseling offers several payment options depending on clinician, service type, and availability. Fees vary based on level of training, session type, and clinical needs.

Licensed Clinician Rates

Gabriela Torres-Mendoza, LPC

Initial Consultation / Intake

$225–$250

Individual Therapy

$195–$210

Couples & Relationship Therapy

$225–$250

Sex & Intimacy Therapy

$250–$275

Family Therapy

$225–$250

Extended 90-Minute Relationship Sessions

$325–$375

Relationship Intensives

Available for established or appropriately screened clients. Pricing varies based on length and clinical needs.

Licensed clinician services are primarily offered on a private-pay basis. Limited in-network availability is maintained for Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Aetna. Clients who prefer to begin without waiting for an insurance opening may start on a private-pay basis.

For clients with out-of-network benefits, superbills can be provided upon request for possible reimbursement through your insurance plan. Reimbursement is determined by your individual plan and cannot be guaranteed by Episkey Counseling.

Graduate Clinical Intern Rates

Therapy is also available with our graduate-level clinical intern, who is completing advanced clinical training and receives ongoing licensed supervision.

Individual Therapy

$80 per session

Couples & Relationship Therapy

$100 per session

A limited sliding-fee scale is available based on financial need and current availability.

Insurance:

For licensed clinicians, limited in-network availability is maintained for Horizon BCBS and Aetna. Because these spots are limited, prospective clients should not assume that an in-network opening is currently available.

Clients who prefer to begin without waiting for an insurance opening may start on a private-pay basis.

For graduate clinical intern services may be billed through the following insurance networks, when eligible:

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey

Aetna

Cigna / Evernorth

Carelon Behavioral Health

Optum

UnitedHealthcare

Oxford

Oscar

Blue Cross Blue Shield network plans

Insurance coverage and eligibility vary by individual plan and service. Benefits will be verified before the first session, and verification of benefits does not guarantee payment by the insurance company.

Out-of-network clients may request a superbill for possible reimbursement through their insurance plan.

(Your coverage will be verified before your first session.)

We provide superbills upon request for out-of-network reimbursement.

Payment Methods:

Credit / Debit cards securely processed through TherapyNotes.

Cancellation Policy:

You may cancel or reschedule up to 24 hours before your appointment. Late cancellations and no-shows are billed $65

Philosophy

At the heart of our practice is a simple belief: healing happens through connection to yourself, to others, and to the parts of you that have long been unheard. Our work centers on creating a therapy space that is honest, compassionate, deeply reflective, and grounded in real change. We help individuals, couples, and families build clarity, emotional resilience, and meaningful relationships by reconnecting to their values, their truth, and their inner strength.

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