We see Mississippi clients of every age by video, with attention to family, culture and the distance to the nearest provider.
Currently accepting new clients
Request a Mississippi appointmentMuch of Mississippi is served by a small number of clinicians relative to the area they cover, and a family needing a psychologist may find the nearest one in a city some distance off. Getting there means a whole day arranged around a single hour. Our Mississippi clients meet us online instead, from home, from a parked car outside work, or from a relative's quiet back room. We work with grandparents raising grandchildren, with parents and teenagers together, and with adults on their own.
Family is usually part of the picture here, so it is usually part of the work. A session may include two generations, or begin with a parent and move to the adolescent, or spend several weeks on what the adults will do differently before the child is seen at all. Dr. Lusk practices in English and in Spanish, and she brings cultural awareness to how distress gets described, what a household treats as private, and what kind of help feels acceptable to ask for.
The concerns below bring most Mississippi clients to us, and each is treated through an individualized plan rather than a fixed sequence of sessions.
Low mood that has lasted months, lost interest, irritability, and the sense of moving through the day at a distance from it. Treatment restores routine and activity and takes on entrenched self-criticism.
For violence, accident, sudden loss, and long-standing harm inside a family. We build stability and sleep first, and we do not press into detail before you are ready to carry it.
Guidance for parents, grandparents and guardians dealing with defiance, trouble at school, or a household under strain. The work treats the family arrangement as the unit instead of blaming one member.
After a death, during a serious diagnosis, or through the long work of caring for someone at the end of life, including the anger and exhaustion that caregivers rarely admit to anyone.
Sessions in English or Spanish for people navigating a new country, a divided family, and the pressure of being the one who translates for everybody else. Cultural context is taken seriously.
For children whose schoolwork scatters and adults who were never assessed. Sessions address attention, planning and follow-through, and evaluation is available where a clearer diagnostic picture is needed.
Establishing trust is our first priority. We begin by listening closely to your history and understanding what has already been tried, whether that means leaning on a church, a school, or a relative. From there, we develop a personalized treatment plan focused on sustained personal growth. Our primary modality is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), adapted to fit each client's cultural background and household dynamics. Since Mississippi clients occasionally arrive having been let down by a service that ended abruptly, we are careful to be reliable and explicit about what we can accomplish. Building durable coping strategies takes time, and we do not offer a quick fix. Instead, we work steadily alongside professionals, students, and families to address difficulties without rushing the process.
Mississippi clients are seen by Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., a bilingual Licensed Clinical Psychologist and the Clinical Director of our practice, working by video under interjurisdictional telepsychology authority.
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 Mississippi.
With more than 25 years in practice, Dr. Lusk provides individual, couples, family and group therapy along with psychological evaluations, including educational and neuropsychological assessment. She took an A.B. at Smith College and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology–San Diego, an APA-accredited program. Mississippi clients may be seen in English or in Spanish, whichever they prefer.
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.
Mississippi is among the states participating in PSYPACT®, the interstate agreement governing telepsychology across state lines. Under it, a psychologist granted the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology by the PSYPACT® Commission may see clients located in other participating states, and Dr. Lusk holds that grant. Anyone wishing to verify it can consult the commission's public directory and its record of member states at psypact.gov.
The agreement follows the client rather than the mailbox. What decides whether it applies is the state you are physically in when an appointment starts, so a trip to a non-participating state can put a scheduled session outside the arrangement even though nothing else about your circumstances has changed. Checking takes a moment, and we do it as each visit opens; when travel is coming up, tell us and the schedule can be sorted out beforehand.
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.
Several Mississippi towns are shaped by the institution at their center, and students, faculty and staff form a recognizable part of our caseload. Video sessions carry on through the summer, an internship in another state, or a move back home after graduation. Below are the state's public universities and its independent colleges, the places where Mississippi clients of ours study, teach and work.
Jackson, Clinton, Oxford, Starkville, Hattiesburg, Tupelo and Gulfport are all represented among the people we currently see. The service itself is not tied to those places; anywhere in Mississippi works, provided you have a quiet room and a steady connection.
Regularly. A great deal of our Mississippi work involves more than one person: two parents together, a parent and an adolescent, grandparents raising a child, adult siblings deciding how to care for a mother. Video makes it feasible to include somebody who lives two hours away or works a shift that would rule out an office visit. We agree at the outset who attends and how confidentiality operates.
Yes. Dr. Lusk is a bilingual psychologist and conducts sessions in Spanish or in English, whichever you are more comfortable in, with no interpreter in the room. Families sometimes use both inside a single hour, a parent speaking Spanish while a teenager answers in English. Tell the office which you prefer when you call, and the intake will be arranged that way.
For most outpatient work, yes. A conversation conducted attentively over video is recognizably the same conversation, and not driving ninety minutes each way is no small gain. What online care cannot provide is crisis response or in-person medical oversight; this practice offers neither emergency nor inpatient or walk-in care, and we will tell you when what you need is local rather than remote.
Evaluations are part of Dr. Lusk's practice, covering educational, employment screening, forensic and neuropsychological questions. Whether a given evaluation can be conducted remotely depends on the referral question and the instruments required, and that is settled in consultation before anything is scheduled. Where an examiner in the room is necessary, we say so rather than proceed with a compromise.
Ours is scheduled outpatient care, not emergency care. Between sessions you can leave a message with the office at (844) 774-7997, and your treatment plan will spell out what to do if things deteriorate. In an emergency, contact 911 or the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, which is staffed continuously and far better equipped for that moment than a scheduled practice.
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.
The first step is a call to (844) 774-7997, or an email to info@psychotherapy.com. We will ask what you are hoping to change, confirm that online care suits the situation, and find an intake time that works for the household.
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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