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Service area · Polk County

Online therapy for Lakeland

Polk County sits between Tampa and Orlando, which means most specialist appointments come with an hour of I-4 attached.

Telehealth, not an office

That drive is the reason a lot of people here never start. It is not ambivalence. It is a calculation about the working day, and it usually comes out the same way.

The other thing I hear from this part of the state is a preference for being told plainly what we are doing and why. That suits how I work. Sessions are conversational and direct, with no worksheets to take home and no expectation that you journal in between.

Ninety minutes in one sitting, rather than fifty minutes a week for a year, is the part most people find hardest to believe and easiest to like.

Polk County by video: Lakeland, Winter Haven, Bartow, Auburndale, Plant City. There is no physical office in Lakeland. Every session runs by secure video.

Sessions
90 minutes, by secure video
Fee
$225 per session · private-pay only
Insurance
Not billed directly; superbill on request
First step
Free initial consultation
Clinician
Robert Cushing, MSW, LCSW #SW19059
Free consultation