Meredith Wood, M.A., L.M.F.T.
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
- Serving Adolescents, Couples, Individuals, and Families
Counseling Services
Meredith Wood L.M.F.T.’s Practice Serves, Adolescents, Adults, Couples And Families.
Meredith believes in her clients’ ability to heal and grow.
Individual therapy, couples counseling and family therapy is available. Group therapy is also a treatment option given the current needs of the clients and the community. Meredith Wood honors the diversity of individuals, couples, families and the community.
Meredith Wood can offer assistance in enhancing an individual’s way of being in a relationship with themselves, their partners, their families and the world they live in.
Family psychotherapy can provide a safe atmosphere in which family members can overcome obstacles, experience growth and healing while creating opportunities for connection, understanding and joy.
Collaboratively, the client and Meredith Wood will explore the reasons for entering treatment and will determine the treatment option that is best suited to their needs.
DURING THIS GLOBAL PANDEMIC THE THERAPY OFFICE OF MEREDITH WOOD, MA, LMFT OFFERS A VARIETY OF TELEHEALTH OPTIONS TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON MY VIRTUAL COUCH.
WEAR A MASK. SOCIAL DISTANCE. WASH YOUR HANDS. IT TRULY TAKES A VILLAGE.
TREATMENT OPTIONS
- Individual Therapy: A person may choose to work on their relationship difficulties, an adolescent can find a safe place to talk, parents can receive education and support. Individual therapy is the most common modality. Many/most issues are appropriate for individual therapy.
- Family Therapy: A systemic, relational approach allows individuals to explore family dynamics and address issues that affect each member and the family as a whole. LGBTQIA families are welcome. When it is not appropriate to include family members a person can enter individual therapy.
- Conjoint/Couple Counseling: This includes pre-marital and maritial counseling/domestic partnership, and co-parenting after separation/divorce.
- Group Therapy: Within a group, an individual has the opportunity to meet others with similar issues, increase their level of education, understanding and compasstion, explore relational/familial relationships, and experience a perspective different from their own.
- Individual Therapy: A person may choose to work on their relationship difficulties, an adolescent can find a safe place to talk, parents can receive education and support. Individual therapy is the most common modality. Many/most issues are appropriate for individual therapy.
- Family Therapy: A systemic, relational approach allows individuals to explore family dynamics and address issues that affect each member and the family as a whole. LGBTQIA families are welcome. When it is not appropriate to include family members a person can enter individual therapy.
- Conjoint/Couple Counseling: This includes pre-marital and maritial counseling/domestic partnership, and co-parenting after separation/divorce.
- In Biography: Former Chairperson, Lake County Suicide Prevention Task Force
GROUP THERAPY
- Girls Rule! An empowerment group
- A Women Who Run With the Wolves inspired group
- A Mother/Daughter Ritual Group
- A Parenting Support Group
- The Wonder Woman Within: A group for females in their 20’s and 30’s.
- A Decision Making Group for adolescents and their families.
- Moving Through Grief: a supportive group for those experiencing loss
The groups currently available are based on the needs of the clients and the community.
Please contact Meredith Wood, M.A., L.M.F.T. with any questions regarding group therapy services or to make a referral.
Insurance Accepted
- Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
- BCBS Blue Choice
- Cigna
- UBH, UCH Optum
- Aetna will continue to be reimbursed at the out of network rate according to your plan
- Is there a plan that you wish I was paneled with? Please let time know and I will look into being accepted into their network.
- If you choose to not utilize insurance-payment is due at the time of service NO EXCEPTIONS. The No Suprises Act (NSA) (1/2022) will not change anything about the psychotherapy services you receive.
- The NSA requires 1. All providers must notify all Self Pay Clients of their right to receive a Good Faith Estimate (GFE) of the cost of any treatment 2. Provide clients a GFE both orally and in writing at the time of scheduling or when requested by the client. The GFE will be provided when scheduling an initial psychotherapy session and is included in the Intake Paperwork provided by The Therapy Office of Meredith Wood, MA, LMFT.
- The NSA DOES NOT EFFECT YOUR THERAPY IN ANY WAY and only pertains to Self Pay clients. Please contact the office at 847-848-2088 with any questions or concerns.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
- BCBS Blue Choice
- Cigna
- UBH, UHC, Optum
- Humana and Aetna will continue to be reimbursed at the out of network rate according to your plan
- Is there a plan that you wish I was paneled with? Please let me know and I will look into being accepted into their network.
- If you choose to not utilize insurance-payment is due at the time of service NO EXCEPTIONS. The No Suprises Act (NSA) (1/2022) will not change anything about the psychotherapy services you receive.
- The NSA requires 1. All providers must notify all Self Pay Clients of their right to receive a Good Faith Estimate (GFE) of the cost of any treatment 2. Provide clients a GFE both orally and in writing at the time of scheduling or when requested by the client. The GFE will be provided when scheduling an initial psychotherapy session and is included in the Intake Paperwork provided by The Therapy Office of Meredith Wood, MA, L.M.F.T.
- The NSA DOES NOT EFFECT YOUR THERAPY IN ANY WAY and only pertains to Self Pay clients. Please contact the office at 847-848-2088 with any questions or concerns.
Looking for a psychotherapist is an important and personal process.
“In order to emphathize with someone’s experience you must be willing to believe them as they see it
and not how you imagine their experience to be. Brene’ Brown”