My office address and contact information are in the blue box in the right colum of this page. I hope the rest of this page answers some basic questions about my office, myself, and my Life Coaching pratice.

Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. And on Friday, 9 a.m. until 6:30 p.m.

Saturday office hours are available for make-up meetings, when you can't make an appointment Monday through Friday.

My office is located at the Meadow Mill building, in the center of Baltimore city near Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus, within walking distance of the Avenue and Falls Road in Hampden. The Woodbury stop on the Light Rail is directly behind my office building.

Following these paragraphs, there are maps of the location; click on either map to receive more driving directions.

Locating the building, its entrance, and the part of the parking lot to use can be a little confusing. Please leave an extra 15 minutes for finding your way through the parking lot and building. Here are a few notes to assist you:

1. Take Falls Road to Union Avenue

   Union Avenue is in between 36th Street (the Avenue) and 38th Street. It's in between a McDonalds and a Rite Aid, both located on the same side of the street as Union.

   If traveling south on Falls, look for a "Meadow Mill Athletic Club" sign painted on the side of a yellow row house soon after you pass the McDonalds.

2. Turn left at the third stop sign on Union

   This turn is immediately in front of the RT 83 overpass and puts you on Clipper Mill Road. If you go under the highway and reach the Light Rail crossing, you've gone one block too far.

3. Almost immediately, take your first right under the highway

   This turn brings you across a wooden bridge, and has you facing the back of Meadow Mill office building. There is no sign on the road or on the bridge that says "3600 Clipper Mill Road."

4. Take a left in the parking lot and slowly drive completely around the building to the opposite side

   You'll be driving past the athletic club located at one end of the building, and the path gets very narrow before turning your first corner. Turn the second corner, follow the building, and you should see the Woodbury Light Rail stop above you to your left.

   The first two "office building" pictures in the right column were taken from the Light Rail stop looking down at this part of the parking lot.

5. Park anywhere

   The entrance to the building is a set of green doors with a few steps leading up to them and with an awning overhead; it's located to the left of the loading dock. Go through the doors, up the stairs to the second floor, and take your first right down the hallway. (If you take the elevator, exit and take your first left down the hallway.)

   I'm in Suite 240 at the end of that hall; my name is next to the door.

My clients pay a variety of fees, and the most common payment is a monthly retainer fee for my services. As an example of what causes my fee to vary, my retainer fee varies depending on whether we meet weekly or every other week. As another example, the fee is reduced if people pay three months or six months in advance. And so on.

First, use this website and a free consulation meeting to see if we're a good fit for working together. If we aren't, then dicussing fees is beside the point. Plus, the most important thing to me is working with clients who appreciate my unique approach; if you do, I will be very motivated to work something out.

Second, to get a general sense of affordability, individuals can do solid, effective work with me for as low as $220 a month. So, review your budget, assume that the work will last approximately 6 to 9 months at a minimum, and come on in for a free consultation meeting to talk about various payment options.

Because I am not providing counseling as a medical service, I do not accept medical health insurance. If using your health insurance is very important to you, please consult with a psychotherapist, mental health counselor, or medical practitioner about possibly getting your counseling needs met through the medical community. Finally, although negotiated and temporary fee adjustments do happen, I do not offer a traditional sliding scale—speak with me for more information about ways to save money while working with me.

Note: I am not aware of any insurance-accepting psychotheraists or mental health counselors who have an approach that is close to mine. If you want to seek that out, you can begin your search by clicking here—you can use this website to browse social-work counselors. I wish you the very best with your search!

I maintain a higher level of confidentiality than that provided by psychotherapists and mental health counselors. There are no embarrassing diagnoses or recorded personal details; what you say to me stays with me—with exceptions determined by ethical codes and legal dictates, which deal mainly with saving lives, or preventing the abuse of children and elders.

Many of my clients enjoy using modern conveniences in our work together: they work remotely with me by phone, they work remotely with me using computer video conferencing (Skype), and they enjoy the convenience of using email to ask questions or review the progress of their projects in between sessions.

If you use any of these methods of working with me, please realize that confidentiality is less secure than in-person meetings in my office. I will do my part to secure our communications—speaking on the phone or on Skype alone in a room with a closed door, password protecting my computer, and so on.

Realize also that there is a slight chance that communications across the Internet can be intercepted—it is very technically difficult to do, but it is possible. You may also want to familiarize yourself with ways of permanently deleting sensitive communications from your computer: delete items from your Recycle Bin and "deleted" email folder, and then compress your hard disk.

Generally, if you can save the most sensitive of conversations for meetings in my office, that would be best. For people working with me remotely, if you can save the most sensitive of conversations for phone calls, that would be best.

I have 14+ years of Counseling and Life Coaching experience, I had a 24+ year career in high tech as a software technical writer—including experience as a hiring manager, I am an experienced workshop developer and leader, I have a Master's degree from Boston University in Clinical Social Work—a Counseling degree, and I was previously licensed as a clinical social worker in the state of Massachuetts. Please note that I am not licensed to provide medical, mental-health counseling in the state of Maryland. For more information, please see my resume.