Prisma Psychology
Neurodiversity is Necessary

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About

Hi, I’m Dr. Elizabeth Fox Butler. I don't see the world as black. vs. white, light vs. dark, etc.; I think in rainbow.

I’m a licensed clinical health psychologist, but you might also call me a mind mender and a sensitive person whisperer. I’m a neurosparkly and neurodiversity-loving human, parent, child, therapist, client, teacher, student, and much more (as we all are!) on a lifelong journey to hone self-acceptance and healthily channeling life force. Supporting fellow neurodivergent parents, teens, and young adults is my life’s purpose. I hope to set an example by consistently investing in my own healing and realization of my highest self so my cup is full and I can serve others from a thoroughly nourished place.

I help Highly Sensitive and/or Neurodivergent individuals, romantic partners, and parent-child dyads 13+ with trauma, anxiety, grief, strengths and struggles related to various sensitivities, and more. 

Who I Serve My Approach
I can help you if you’re ready for change but don’t know where to start. You long to feel accepted but lost when you try to express yourself. You want to stop hurting but aren’t sure how to comfort yourself.

I help neurodivergent people, highly sensitive and introverted adults, partners, teens, and parents:
• Repair your relationships through deep healing and more connection
• Embrace your strengths and flaws to reduce inner conflict
• Learn to observe and manage day-to-day energy levels, structure your routines to fuel your energy and share your gifts
• Cope with stress without feeling deprived or driven into unwanted coping attempts
• Seek and embrace social support
• Minimize, redirect, and soothe anxiety
• Channel your sensitivity and use it for good
• Modify your environment so you can thrive and enjoy the little things
• Fine-tune and follow your intuition
• Repair your relationship to mind-altering substances and/or compulsive behaviors
I know from my own growth and helping hundreds of sensitive and introverted clients that you, too, are capable of facing your fears, healing your pain, and living a full life. Change happens through subtle and steady action, which adds up to significant results. Click here for more information about my approach.
Some of my most recent training experiences include:
• Healing the Ancestral Lines (Year 1 & 2) at The Last Mask Center
• Integrative Psychiatry Institute's yearlong intensive psychedelic-assisted therapy fellowship
• Internal Family Systems for Parents with Frank Anderson, MD
• Growing Orchids: Raising the High-Needs or Orchid Child
• Keys to Deepening Your Breathwork Practice with Neurodynamic Breathwork Online
• Community-Based Neuroprotective Developmental Care for Mothers and Babies
• It Takes a Village: Creating Conditions of Acceptance for Gender Nonconforming Children and Youth at Mind the Gap
• DBT Skills Training – A Complete Course at The Linehan Institute
• A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approach to Couples Therapy
• What’s Your Gender? A Gender Affirmative Model for Working with Children and Youth with Diane Ehrensaft
• Energy Body Maintenance and Energy Body Clearing with the Last Mask Center
• Therapeutic Touch for Healers with Jim Gilkeson CST
• Brain Training Program for Highly Sensitive People with Julie Bjelland LMFT

Specialties

Neurodiversity-Affirming Support

My approach celebrates neurological differences commonly known as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Highly Sensitive People, and general learning differences, focusing on strengths rather than deficits. We'll work together to help you find and nurture the environments, relationships, and lifestyle that best fits you, and not the other way around. This therapy provides support, understanding, and strategies that honor each person's unique way of thinking, feeling, and experiencing the world.

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

This service offers Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) in collaboration with Journey Clinical's medical team, as well as harm reduction and integration support for individuals using psychedelics such as Psilocybin, MDMA, and Cannabis. With specialized training and practicum experience, the therapist provides guidance in preparation, safe use, and integration, helping clients explore, gain new perspectives, and work through limiting patterns in a safe, inclusive, and culturally humble environment.

Traumatic Grief Recovery

Whether your grief stems from acute trauma or long-term pain, I am here to hold space for and help move through those stuck, incomplete expressions. I use somatic parts work and shamanic tools to help individuals heal, process experiences, and regain a sense of safety and balance.

Healing for Parents

Family therapy supports those seeking healthier, closer relationships. It can help with divorce, parent-child conflict, sibling issues, domestic violence, or the loss of a family member. Benefits include better communication, stronger boundaries, improved problem-solving, reduced conflict, and greater empathy and understanding.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Is The Fee For Therapy?

● In an attempt to make this work accessible to everyone, I offer a Fair Payment Model. 

Contribute MORE if: Contribute LESS if:
  • have the ability to comfortably meet all of your basic needs
  • belong to a sponsoring organization or are employed full-time
  • have investments, retirement accounts, or inherited money
  • travel recreationally
  • have access to family money and resources in times of need
  • work part-time by choice
  • own the home you live in
  • have a relatively high degree of earning power due to level of education (or gender and racial privilege, class background, etc.)
  • have difficulty covering basic expenses
  • are supporting children or have other dependents
  • have significant debt
  • have medical expenses not covered by insurance
  • are an elder with limited financial support
  • are an unpaid community organizer
  • have unstable housing and/or limited access to reliable transportation
  • have not taken a vacation or time off due to the financial burden

Rates

My full fee is $250/50-minute session. I offer prorated shorter sessions for younger folks or quick check-ins, and longer sessions for those who might like extended meetings. I have limited sliding scale slots available; Please do not hesitate to reach out regarding my current sliding scale availability if you belong to a marginalized group(s) and I'll be happy to discuss options.

Insurance

Depending on your current health insurance provider or employee benefit plan, it is possible for services to be covered in full or in part. Please contact your provider to verify how your plan compensates you for psychotherapy services.

I’d recommend asking these questions to your insurance provider to help determine your benefits:

● Does my health insurance plan include mental health benefits?
● Do I have a deductible? If so, what is it and have I met it yet?
● Does my plan limit how many sessions per calendar year I can have? If so, what is the limit?
● Do I need written approval from my primary care physician in order for services to be covered?

Will My Insurance Pay For My Sessions?

Some plans with out of network benefits will reimburse for my services. I require out of pocket payment up front at each session. I offer insurance filing forms monthly for you to submit and you will receive direct reimbursement.

Should I Use My Insurance?

For several reasons, including protecting your confidentiality, I do not accept insurance as an in-network provider. Depending on your current health plan, your services may be covered in full or in part by out of network benefits. Please contact your provider to verify how your plan compensates you for out of network psychotherapy services.

This means you pay the fee out of pocket at each session. Each month, my assistant or I can send you an out of network reimbursement form for you to submit to your insurance company. Then your insurance company will reimburse you directly, sending payment to your home address.

Ask your insurance provider these questions to determine your benefits:

● Does my health insurance plan include out of network mental health benefits?
● Do I have an out of network deductible? If so, what is it and have I met it yet?
● Does my plan limit how many out of network sessions per calendar year I can have? If so, what is the limit?
● Do I need written approval from my primary care physician in order for out of network services to be covered?
● Will the insurance company ask for access to my records?
● How might a mental health diagnosis on record with my insurance company impact future insurance costs?
● True privacy and confidentiality means sharing sensitive, personal information with a single, trusted professional chosen by the patient. Managed care usually requires sharing private information with several people who are not chosen by the patient. Insurance company employees (gatekeepers and utilization reviewers) have access to your information. Files are often accessible to hundreds of employees.
● Life insurance companies have access to your health insurance giving them the right to deny you coverage based on your diagnosis. This is termed risk management when it is actually discrimination and bias fueled by negative stigma. Certain diagnoses can prohibit life insurance even if the diagnosis was several years ago.
● A utilization reviewer’s decisions may overrule the decision of the professional who is conducting the treatment. However, the reviewer’s decision often is based upon limited information and/or a too-brief discussion of a case with the treating therapist.
● Medical ethical codes require that health professionals avoid and minimize conflicts of interest regarding their primary obligation to the patient’s welfare. Managed care, on the other hand, does just the opposite. Professionals may avoid dealing with important long-term issues or cut therapy short because managed care prefers to refer new patients to therapists with a record of short-term (less expensive) treatment.
● Managed care often fails to inform patients of treatment alternatives outside of the plan. This failure to inform serves the purposes of the managed care company because patients who do not know other treatment is possible, are more likely to report satisfaction with the managed care treatment. Unfortunately, this failure to inform also undermines the patients’ control, because the patient loses the choice to self-pay for the preferred treatment.
● Medication is frequently presented as complete treatment. In fact, psychotherapy, in combination with medication, is a better treatment than medications alone.
● Patients who are sent to psychotherapy are usually told that ultra-brief therapy is the treatment of choice, and if they don’t improve, they are told that there are no realistic alternatives. The reality is that longer-term psychotherapy is a more effective treatment for many presenting problems. Many people find it so helpful that they will decide to self-pay for longer-term, depth psychotherapy.

What If I Still Want To Use Insurance?

While there are potential complications that could come about from using insurance, I do still happily provide paperwork necessary should you decide you’d like to obtain out-of-network reimbursement. This means you pay for the sessions up front, submit the form to your insurance company, then they may or may not reimburse you a certain percentage. This depends on the provider, type of plan, etc. Call your member services department to find out more by asking specifically about your plan’s out-of-network reimbursement requirements and percentages.

What Does “Confidentiality” Mean?

Your therapy sessions are confidential. No information about you will be discussed with anyone without your written permission. However, California state law requires exceptions to this rule in the following situations: (a) current or past unreported child abuse or neglect; (b) elder abuse; (c) a threat to the life of another person; (d) court subpoena; (e) medical emergency while in session. Confidentiality may also be broken if you are in imminent danger of harming yourself or if you are gravely disabled (i.e., planning suicide or unable to provide food, clothing or shelter for yourself).