Adult and Community Services
Culturally affirming, evidence-based care for adults and everything in between.
Psychotherapy
You are complex — and your care should reflect that. I offer individual psychotherapy for adults 18 and older using evidence-based approaches tailored to your unique experiences, goals, and cultural background. Progress is tracked throughout treatment using validated digital assessments including the PHQ-9, GAD-7, MADRS, and Quality of Life scales, because you deserve care that measures real change — not just good intentions.
Individual 55 mins | $175
Speaking Engagements & Facilitation
Sergena Laine, LCSW, is a dynamic speaker who inspires audiences with her expertise in mental health, social work, and cultural humility. Drawing on her rich professional background and personal journey, she delivers engaging presentations on topics such as trauma-informed care, navigating life transitions, and fostering resilience. Sergena’s relatable style and practical insights empower her audience to create meaningful change in their communities and professional lives. Book Sergena for your next event to experience an impactful and thought-provoking conversation.
Rates start at $1700
Clinical Care Coordination
When it comes to making care decisions for yourself, a parent, or other loved one, families may be intimidated by researching and trying to understand which services your loved one needs, when they need them — and how to afford it. Greatly experienced across the continuum of care, I can devote time to learning about you or your loved one’s individual medical and psychiatric conditions, mine for available resources, and present you with a plan and referrals that work best for your situation.
60 mins | $100
Supervision
Starting a mental health career and learning new techniques and therapeutic approaches during your career as a psychotherapist can be challenging. As therapists, we need to be grounded, self-aware, and familiar with our own reactivity patterns. When you achieve this, you will provide a safe presence for your clients. In supervision, the aim is supporting you in developing your knowledge and understanding of therapeutic techniques, as well as providing you with guidance and case consultation. Please reach out to discuss how I may support you and your unique needs.
60 mins | $60
What to Expect
Therapy Nook serves two audiences on this page: adults seeking individual care, and communities and organizations seeking programming, training, and clinical guidance. Whichever brought you here, here's exactly how it works.
If you're coming for adult psychotherapy:
Reach out. Send a message, book online, or call. We respond within one to two business days.
Brief consultation. A short phone or video conversation to make sure we're a good fit before you commit.
Digital intake. Complete a brief intake through SimplePractice — secure, HIPAA-compliant, and fully digital.
First session (55 minutes). We get to know each other, name what's bringing you in, and begin identifying goals.
Ongoing care. Sessions held via secure telehealth, typically weekly or biweekly. Progress tracked with validated assessments — PHQ-9, GAD-7, MADRS, and Quality of Life scales — so you always know how the work is landing.
If you're booking a speaking engagement or facilitation:
Send an inquiry. Share the audience, topic area, format (keynote, workshop, panel, retreat), date, and location. The more context, the better the fit.
Discovery call. A 20–30 minute conversation to align on your community's needs, learning outcomes, and cultural context.
Proposal and agreement. You'll receive a written proposal covering scope, deliverables, timeline, and fee. Rates start at $1,700.
Content development. Sessions are custom-built for your audience — not pulled from a shelf. Expect drafts, revisions, and a check-in before the event.
Deliver. Whether it's 20 people in a boardroom or 200 in a keynote hall, the goal is the same: accessible language, evidence-based content, and real takeaways.
Follow-up. Post-event debrief, materials for attendees, and a debrief with your team if useful.
If you're seeking clinical care coordination:
Reach out. Tell us who the care is for (you, a parent, a loved one) and what you're navigating.
Intake conversation. A 60-minute session to understand the full picture — medical, psychiatric, financial, family — because care decisions don't happen in isolation.
Research and resource-mining. Between sessions, we do the digging — vetting providers, understanding insurance implications, mapping options.
Care plan. You receive a written plan with concrete referrals and next steps tailored to the situation.
Follow-through. Additional sessions available as decisions get made and pieces shift. This is not a one-and-done service.
If you're a clinician seeking supervision:
Reach out. Share where you are in your career — pre-licensure, newly licensed, mid-career reset — and what you're hoping supervision will do for you.
Fit conversation. A brief call to align on approach, cadence, licensure requirements, and mutual expectations.
Ongoing supervision. 60-minute sessions, typically weekly or biweekly. Case consultation, technique development, exploration of countertransference, and support for the person behind the clinician.
Documentation. Supervision hours are tracked and documented to meet licensure requirements where applicable.
FAQs
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Yes — for adult psychotherapy, Therapy Nook is in-network with Anthem, Aetna, and United Healthcare/Optum. Additional payors are being added and existing clients are notified as coverage expands.
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No. Medicaid is accepted only for our Children and Family Services (Connecticut Husky). Adult psychotherapy is not billable to Medicaid at this time. If you're a Medicaid-insured adult seeking care, we're happy to point you toward providers and community resources who can help.
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You have two options. You can pay privately at our published self-pay rates, or you can request a superbill — an itemized receipt you submit to your insurance for possible out-of-network reimbursement. Reimbursement varies by plan, so call your insurance's member services line ahead of time and ask about your out-of-network mental health benefits.
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Therapy Nook works with adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, life transitions, relationship challenges, identity, cultural stress, and burnout. Care is evidence-based, culturally affirming, and tailored to your story — not delivered from a script.
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Sergena is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a certificate in clinical supervision. She supervises pre-licensure clinicians (LMSWs working toward LCSW), newly-licensed clinicians building foundational skills, and mid-career clinicians seeking case consultation or a values-aligned outside perspective.
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Clinical care coordination is a paid consultative service that helps you or your family make sense of a complicated care situation — and build a real plan for it. When someone you love needs mental health treatment, medical care, or long-term support, the amount of research required is overwhelming: which providers accept the insurance, what level of care is appropriate, which programs actually have openings, what happens after the hospital discharge, how to afford it, and how to keep the whole picture from falling apart while you're also trying to work and live your life.
Sergena has spent years working across the continuum of care — inpatient psychiatry, hospital case management, community-based services, and private practice. Care coordination puts that full expertise on your side of the table. She takes the time to understand the medical, psychiatric, financial, and family context, does the research between sessions, and delivers a written plan with concrete referrals you can actually act on.
It's the difference between being handed a list of phone numbers and being handed a strategy.
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No. Clinical care coordination is a private-pay consultative service and is not billable to insurance or Medicaid. This is intentional — insurance-covered care coordination is typically tied to a specific hospital, agency, or insurance plan, which limits whose interests get represented at the table. By keeping this service private-pay, Sergena works entirely for you: her research, recommendations, and referrals are shaped by your family's situation, not by what a payor will authorize.
The rate is $100 per 60-minute session. Most families use anywhere from one to a handful of sessions depending on the complexity of the situation. You'll always know the cost before you commit to additional time.
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Common topics include trauma-informed care, cultural humility, navigating life transitions, resilience, the psychology of high-effort coping (Superwoman Schema, John Henryism), Black mental health, and clinical topics for professional audiences. Custom topics are welcome — if it's in Sergena's clinical wheelhouse, we can build content around it.
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The earlier the better — Sergena's calendar fills 2–3 months out for custom engagements. For simpler formats or shorter turnarounds, reach out and we'll do our best.
“Sergena’s business has provided a great value to the community. More people need to be at her workshops.”
— O.L., CLIENT
