Arkansas clients meet us by secure video and keep the same clinician wherever work or family takes them inside the state.
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Request an Arkansas appointmentPeople come to us from Arkansas for a mix of reasons, and one recurring reason is that their life does not sit still. Work moves a household from Jonesboro to Springdale. A grown child enrolls in Conway while a parent stays in Fort Smith. A job requires three nights a week on the road. Therapy attached to one street address tends to end when any of that happens, and a virtual practice does not.
We see adults, adolescents, and couples here, with emphasis on the ordinary difficulties that have grown too heavy to carry alone: a marriage gone quiet, a stretch of sleeplessness that will not break, grief that arrived a year ago and has not moved since. Everything is confidential, and for many clients in this state the privacy of meeting from home is part of the appeal in a town where every car is recognized.
Six of this practice's areas come up most with Arkansas clients, and the clinician will say early on whether what you are describing is a good fit for this setting.
Anxiety treatment is concrete. You leave each session with something specific to try, report back on what happened, and adjust from there, instead of spending months discussing worry in the abstract.
Grief keeps no schedule. We make space for the relationship that ended, complicated parts included, and for the practical weight that falls on whoever is left managing a household alone.
Some clients arrive with a work problem rather than a symptom: a promotion that stopped feeling possible, a field they no longer believe in. We separate a clear look at ability and interest from the fear underneath the decision.
For anger we examine the sequence — what precedes an escalation, what the body does first, what it has already cost at home — and build responses usable before the point of no return.
Partners can attend from one room or from two, which sometimes helps when one of them travels for work. Either way the focus is the cycle both people are caught inside.
Living with pain or long illness alters sleep, mood, and identity. Psychological care does not replace medical treatment; it addresses the fear, the lost activity, and the strain on people nearby.
We start with the assumption that you are an inherently capable individual facing circumstances that have simply outpaced your usual coping strategies. For Arkansas clients, our work begins with a thorough evaluation to prevent wasting time on vague assumptions. From there, we identify actionable goals that make sense to you. The foundation of our method rests on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which requires ongoing, active participation. Since we do not offer a quick fix, we generally meet weekly over a period of months. Throughout this time, we openly monitor your progress and will plainly tell you if a specific technique is not yielding the desired results, allowing us to pivot effectively.
Dr. Della S. Lusk, this practice's Clinical Director, provides all psychological services to clients located in Arkansas, working with adults, adolescents, couples, and whole families.
Clinical Director · Bilingual Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Lusk holds the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT™) granted by the PSYPACT® Commission, which authorizes her to provide telepsychology to clients located in Arkansas.
Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., has practiced psychology for more than two and a half decades. Educated at Smith College, she completed an APA-accredited doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology–San Diego. Arkansas clients see her under her interjurisdictional telepsychology authority, for therapy with individuals, couples, and families, for group work, and for psychological evaluations.
Request an appointmentFull biographies, training, and areas of expertise are listed on our providers page. You can also read Dr. Lusk’s licensure and credentials in full. You are welcome to ask any clinician directly about their qualifications and experience.
The arrangement that makes these appointments lawful is an interstate compact for telepsychology. Arkansas is one of the participating jurisdictions, and Dr. Lusk, licensed as a psychologist in Arizona, holds the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology issued by the PSYPACT® Commission. Those two facts together let her treat someone in Arkansas by secure video. No separate state registration is needed from you or from the practice.
Authorization attaches to your physical position during the hour we meet. Being an Arkansas resident is not the test; being in Arkansas is. Clients who drive for a living, or who spend weeks at a site somewhere else, should hand the office their travel dates, and we check each destination against the list of covered jurisdictions before confirming those sessions. A permanent move deserves a conversation as early as you can manage one.
Participating jurisdictions are published by the compact commissions and can change. You can review current psychology participation at psypact.gov, find the relevant psychology licensing board through the PSYPACT® board directory, or check counseling privileges at CompactConnect. If you are not sure which applies to you, call (844) 774-7997 and we will confirm before you schedule.
Arkansas spreads its students across many campuses. Among the public ones we work with University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), Arkansas State University, University of Central Arkansas, Arkansas Tech University, and University of Arkansas at Little Rock; among the private, Hendrix College, Ouachita Baptist University, Lyon College, and Harding University. Students, faculty, and staff are all seen.
Little Rock, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Springdale, Jonesboro, Conway, and Rogers are where most of our Arkansas appointments originate, but the format is indifferent to that. A farmhouse with one door closed works as well as an apartment in a city.
Tell us as soon as you know. When the new state takes part in the same telepsychology agreement, the work usually continues without interruption. When it does not, Dr. Lusk helps you find a clinician there and, with your written permission, passes along what a new provider needs, so you are not starting the story from the beginning.
No. Most people call because something has become hard to manage, not because a physician sent them. Part of what the first appointment is for is working out what is going on and whether this practice is the right place for it. Records from previous care are useful if you have them, but they are not required.
The platform is secure and the clinician sits in a private room. The variable is usually your end: headphones help, a closed door helps, and a parked car is a legitimate option when the house is full. We discuss your setup at intake and rework the plan if privacy at home is a genuine problem.
Not reliably, because both people's locations matter. When one partner is traveling we generally reschedule or hold an individual session with whoever is in Arkansas. Give us your travel calendar and we will lay the joint appointments out across the weeks you will both be here.
Our rates are sent in a fee agreement when you schedule an appointment. Our office answers any out-of-network questions in advance of a first appointment. Reach staff at (844) 774-7997 or info@psychotherapy.com and ask for whatever detail you want. An hour goes on the calendar only after that has been settled.
We accept all major credit and debit cards, and we gladly accept HSA, FSA, and HRA cards so you can use pre-tax dollars toward your care. Our practice generally operates out-of-network. This allows us to protect your privacy, keep care highly personalized, and avoid insurance-mandated session limits.
Our rates are sent in a fee agreement when you schedule an appointment. Please check with your insurance company regarding your out-of-network benefits. As a courtesy, we will submit claims on your behalf upon request, and any reimbursement will be sent directly to the insured. Call (844) 774-7997 or email info@psychotherapy.com if you have questions.
Our services are by appointment only, during normal business hours. Evening, weekend, and early morning appointments are sometimes available for established clients.
A first appointment starts with a telephone call to (844) 774-7997. Expect a short conversation about what you hope to change, confirmation that you will be in Arkansas at session time, a review of the fee, and then an hour on the schedule.
We do not offer crisis, walk-in, or inpatient services of any type, and this page is not a substitute for emergency care.
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