A licensed psychologist by video, for Maine clients whose nearest clinic may be an hour or more away.
Currently accepting new clients
Request a Maine appointmentDistance shapes mental health care in Maine more than almost anything else. Providers cluster in a handful of population centers, and someone living well north or east of them may face a long drive on two-lane roads for a fifty-minute appointment. Winter makes that worse: one storm can take out a week of care, and the muddy weeks that follow are not much kinder. We work with Maine clients entirely by video, so the appointment holds whether or not the roads do.
Continuity is the other thing video protects. Clients whose work is seasonal, who spend part of the year away, or who move between a family house and a rental keep the same psychologist and the same hour each week. Older adults who have given up driving in the dark keep their appointments through February. And someone who has finally decided to talk to a professional is no longer limited by which providers happen to sit within driving range.
Maine clients bring a wide range of concerns; the six below are the most frequent, and every one of them is worked on through a plan made for the individual.
Mood that flattens through the darker months, or persists all year, is treated with attention to daylight, routine, movement and the fixed patterns of thinking that keep low mood where it is.
Therapy for single incidents and for harm that continued over years. Work proceeds only as fast as your nervous system tolerates, beginning with stability and sleep long before any detailed account is revisited.
Living with pain or long-term illness wears down mood, sleep and patience. Psychological treatment does not replace medical care; it addresses the fear, the fatigue and the narrowing of life that accompany them.
Difficulty falling asleep, waking at three, or a schedule broken by shift work. Treatment rebuilds the behaviors around sleep and takes on the worry that arrives once the house goes quiet.
Support after a death, during a terminal diagnosis, or through the long stretch of caring for someone who is dying, including the guilt and the relief that so often arrive together.
For parents managing a child's behavior, a blended household, or an adult son or daughter in trouble. Sessions look at the whole family arrangement instead of treating one member as the problem.
We are unhurried by design. Early sessions map what has been tried, who is in your life, and what you want to be different. We draw on firsthand experience with places like Gould Academy and Sunday River, while recognizing that life in those seasonal areas looks very different from the daily routines of professionals and families across the rest of the state. We respect the strong independence that shapes how Mainers approach challenges. Our primary framework is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which we adapt to help you navigate career transitions, relationship shifts, or academic pressures. Because sustained personal growth takes time, we do not offer a quick fix. Instead, we establish a personalized treatment plan and revisit it aloud as our work progresses, ensuring the strategies we build fit the reality of your everyday life.
Therapy in Maine is provided by Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., Clinical Director of our practice, who is authorized to deliver telepsychology to clients located in participating states.
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 Maine.
Dr. Lusk has practiced for more than 25 years as a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. Her doctoral training in Clinical Psychology was completed at the California School of Professional Psychology–San Diego, an APA-accredited program, following an A.B. at Smith College. Maine clients see her for therapy with individuals, couples, families and groups, and for psychological evaluations, including educational and neuropsychological assessment where a referral question calls for it.
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.
Maine takes part in PSYPACT®, the interstate arrangement under which a psychologist authorized by the PSYPACT® Commission may practice telepsychology with clients in other participating states. Dr. Lusk holds that authorization, the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology, or APIT™. Rather than ask you to take our word for it, we point you to the commission's own directory of authorized psychologists and its current map of member states, both kept at psypact.gov.
The rule that matters in practice is a simple one: your physical location at the moment of the session decides which authorization applies. A Maine address is not sufficient on its own. Someone wintering in the south, or working a stretch in another state, may fall outside the arrangement even though nothing about home has changed. So we check your whereabouts as each appointment opens, and we plan around trips beforehand instead of discovering the problem halfway through an hour.
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.
Student life in Maine spreads across a statewide public system and a group of independent colleges, and video sessions let a student keep the same psychologist through a semester away, a co-op placement or a summer back home. Faculty and staff use the service for much the same reason. The institutions below are those our Maine clients attend or work for.
Our clients join from Portland, Bangor, Lewiston and Augusta, from Orono, Brunswick and Waterville, and from towns much farther out than any of them. The list shows where people currently meet us online; the service is not limited to it.
Then you are the reason a service like this exists. Clients in the less populated parts of Maine tell us the obstacle was never a willingness to be helped, it was a three-hour round trip and a day of lost wages. Video asks nothing of you geographically. A quiet room, a device with a camera and a connection steady enough for conversation are the whole requirement.
That is one of the advantages of meeting online. When roads close or a storm takes out a morning, a video appointment is usually unaffected, and treatment avoids the gaps that repeated cancellations create. If your power or internet goes down we will reschedule, and in households where outages are common we discuss a fallback at intake, including finishing the hour by telephone.
Yes. We see undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and campus staff, and video is particularly practical for people whose address moves with the academic calendar. Students often prefer a clinician with no connection to their institution, which is what we can offer. The one requirement is that you be physically inside a participating state, Maine among them, while the session runs.
The intake is a long conversation rather than a form. Dr. Lusk will ask what prompted the call, and about your history, your health, your household and whatever you have already tried. By the end you should have an initial impression, a proposed plan and a sense of how often you will meet. You are free to ask about her training and her method, and about anything else that helps you decide.
We are a scheduled outpatient practice, and we do not offer crisis, walk-in or inpatient services. Between appointments the office at (844) 774-7997 can pass along a message, and your plan will set out what to do if things get harder. Anyone facing an emergency should contact local emergency services or the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, which is staffed at all hours and equipped for exactly that.
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.
Reach the office at (844) 774-7997, or send a note to info@psychotherapy.com if a telephone call is hard to fit in. We will confirm that Maine telepsychology applies to your situation, answer practical questions and book the intake hour.
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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