Thea Vondracek LMFT

thea@greensboro-therapy.com

My Counseling Practice

Are you unhappy or anxious in your relationships? I work with you to help you develop and maintain positive relationships with yourself and the important people in your life. You can benefit from understanding what motivates behavior choices and interferes with communication and understanding.

MyTreatment Focus

Through my work with adults as individuals or as part of a couple, I promote personal strength, intentionality, and kindness. Each client is provided a personalized approach that may include interventions from Person-Centered Practices, the Gottman Method, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and tailored to each of my clients' individual needs to help attain personal growth.

Goals of Treatment

My goal is for you to overcome the difficulties that brought you to therapy sooner rather than later. In order to track our success in treatment, at the beginning of each session I will ask you to complete a rating scale of how you are doing in the areas of your personal well-being, primary relationship, social and work setting, and general overall functioning. This information is discussed with you, recorded on a graph, and compared over time. If you are not making progress towards your treatment goals it may be appropriate to redesign the treatment plan, goals, or methods of therapy and consider the possible benefit of a referral to a specialist or other treatment program.

Counseling Services

Individual Counseling Services

Counseling can help people understand why they do what they do.

Counseling is a safe place to honestly explore emotions of anger, anxiety, and worry.
Counseling can help people learn how to effectively influence others by changing how they respond to others' troubling behaviors.
Counseling is a place to learn coping skills, improve self-esteem, and discover life purpose.
Counseling is a place to practice new behaviors, identify and establish appropriate boundaries, and develop kindness and self-reliance.

Counseling Fees: 55-minute sessions are $125. Sessions are scheduled for one hour increments. Fee may be reduced due to insurance contract or other negotiations.

Independent in-network provider for Aetna, Blue-Cross/BlueShield, Medcost, and UMR. In network through Headway for United Health Care, Oscar Health, and Oxford (contact https://headway.co). In network through MD Live (tele-health only at https://mdlnext.mdlive.com). Your out-of-pocket expense will depend on your plan. Call the number on the back of your insurance card for details on your coverage. Note that you may have a mental health/behavioral health benefit that is different from your medical insurance. I do not accept referrals through EAP benefits except for Optum EAP.

E-counseling

E-counseling, also referred to as e-therapy, tele-health, or tele-therapy, is the process of providing real-time face-to-face counseling services via the internet. Services are provided via a HIPAA compliant platform that allows us to meet via a secure and private internet server.

Due to licensure laws, I can provide tele-counseling services only to clients who reside in North Carolina.

Relationship Counseling

Relationships can be wonderful and frustrating all at the same time. All of us are in a variety of relationships and can benefit from learning how to improve them. Whether you are struggling with a romantic relationship, a work relationship, or a relationship with a family member (child, parent, or something else) learning how to create positive interactions can improve the quality of your life.

Counseling, either individually or with other important people in your life, can help you learn:

The triggers to conflict and how to manage them
How to help other people feel heard and understood
How to communicate your feelings and be understood by others
The common roadblocks to communication and what to do about them
How to challenge your own thought processes that provoke anxiety in the relationship
Ways to approach difficult topics without getting into a fight