Therapy built around what's actually keeping you stuck.
Evidence-based treatment for trauma, anxiety, anger, and the patterns that are hard to name on your own, led by Aaron Plotz, MS, LMHC.
A clinician who's worked across the full range of behavioral health.
Aaron has supported veterans and civilians through inpatient and behavioral health settings before founding Stay Strong Counseling in 2021. His approach blends EMDR, CBT and Existential Therapy, chosen based on what actually fits the person in front of him, not a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Read Aaron's full storySix places people get stuck, and how we help you move.
Clinically proven techniques, matched to the specific thing that brought you here.
Depression & Anxiety
Recover the motivation, perspective and joy that anxiety and low mood have crowded out. Sessions focus on rebuilding daily structure and challenging the thought patterns that keep both feeding each other.
PTSD & Trauma
EMDR helps the brain reprocess painful memories so they stop running the show. Sessions are paced entirely by you, nothing is processed before you're ready for it.
Anger Management
CBT and REBT to challenge the thoughts that turn normal frustration into a problem. You'll leave early sessions with a concrete way to catch the trigger before it becomes the blow-up.
Relationship Issues
Support for breaking recurring cycles of conflict, distance and misunderstanding. Together, we'll build clearer communication, healthier boundaries and more secure ways of connecting.
Family Conflict
A space to understand the roles, communication patterns and unresolved hurts keeping your family stuck. Treatment helps reduce tension, strengthen boundaries and create more constructive ways forward.
Bipolar Disorder
Treatment that helps level the highs and lows into something more livable. Often works alongside a psychiatrist managing medication, therapy is a complement to that, not a replacement for it.
The methods behind the sessions.
Guides the brain to reprocess unresolved memories through bilateral stimulation, eye movements, tapping, or sound, reducing the emotional charge of trauma so it can be integrated rather than relived. You won't need to narrate the event in detail for it to work.
A structured, goal-oriented approach to identifying and challenging the thought patterns driving anxiety, depression, and anger, then replacing them with tools you can actually use outside the session.
A meaning-centered approach exploring purpose, values, and freedom, useful when symptoms have eased but something still feels unresolved or directionless.
Practical grounding techniques, focused breathing, body awareness, present-moment attention, woven into sessions to build the kind of calm that holds up outside of therapy too.
Four methods. One goal: steadier ground.
EMDR
Bilateral stimulation that helps your brain reprocess trauma without re-living it in detail. Most people are surprised by how little they actually have to say out loud for it to work.
CBT
Identify the distorted thought, change the response. Practical tools you keep for life. It's structured and often comes with between-session practice, the most hands-on of the four.
Existential / Logotherapy
Viktor Frankl's meaning-centered approach, for clients facing transition, grief or emptiness. Less about managing symptoms, more about the question underneath them: what's this actually for.
Mindfulness
Present-moment awareness that calms the nervous system and steadies emotional reactions. Practiced during sessions, not just assigned as homework, so it actually becomes a habit rather than an idea.
Three steps, no waiting room small talk.
Reach out
Call, email, or use the contact form. Aaron replies within 1 business day.
Free 15-minute call
A quick, no-pressure conversation to make sure it's a good fit before anything is scheduled.
First session
No referral needed. Most new clients are seen within the week.
Skip the prior authorization. You and Aaron decide what you need.
Individual Session
$175Most clients choose to pay privately, no diagnosis code, no insurance company involved in your care, you and Aaron decide what you need. Insurance accepted too, if you'd rather use it.
Request a CallbackWant to use insurance instead?
Individual sessions are also accepted under Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Florida Blue, Cigna, Oscar, Oxford, and United Healthcare. Ask Aaron directly about your plan.
What people usually ask before booking.
What actually happens in an EMDR session?
You'll recall a specific memory while following a guided pattern of eye movement or tapping. It sounds strange until you've done it, the bilateral stimulation seems to help your brain file the memory away properly instead of replaying it on a loop. Most people are surprised how little they have to talk about the details to get the benefit.
Should I pay privately or use insurance?
Most clients choose to pay privately. It means no diagnosis code on your permanent record, no insurance company deciding how many sessions you're allowed, and full confidentiality, Aaron and you decide what you need, not a claims department. That said, insurance is genuinely fine if it works better for your budget, see below.
Do I need a Good Faith Estimate?
No. Under the No Surprises Act, a Good Faith Estimate exists so clients know their costs upfront when those costs aren't otherwise clear. Aaron's pricing is already fully transparent, the price shown for a session is exactly what you'll pay, with no hidden fees or surprise balance. That's been the approach from day one, not something added to meet a requirement.
Do you accept my insurance?
Individual sessions are accepted under Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Florida Blue, Cigna, Oscar, Oxford, and United Healthcare. If you're not on one of those plans, ask anyway, Aaron can usually provide a superbill for out-of-network reimbursement.
What's a superbill, and can I use one?
It's an itemized receipt you submit to your insurance yourself for possible reimbursement, used when a provider is out-of-network. Aaron can provide one on request if your plan isn't listed above.
How many sessions will I need?
There's no set number. Some people come in for a handful of EMDR sessions around one specific event, others stay in ongoing weekly therapy for months. You and Aaron will revisit this as you go, not commit to a fixed plan on day one.