Ladue · Frontenac · Town and Country
Discretion and defined goals
For adults balancing private concerns with family, leadership, and professional responsibilities.
View this service area →Focused work · Private pay
Private counseling for high-functioning adults in St. Louis.
For adults who want a defined goal, direct work, and meaningful movement—not an open-ended treatment relationship without a clear destination.
The practice model
Pay for focused expertise, privacy, and a clear direction.
New Pathways is a private-pay counseling practice for stable adults working on a specific issue. Sessions are $275 for 50 minutes. Insurance is not accepted or billed, and the usual cadence is biweekly or monthly when that fits the goal.
Private pay is not a status symbol and does not guarantee anonymity. It is a practical structure for clients who value choice, discretion, a defined scope, and counseling decisions that are not organized around insurance requirements.
Access
Ballwin office · Missouri telehealth · Limited on-site appointments$275 / 50 minutes · On-site $375 / 50 minutes
A deliberate fit
Built for responsibility, complexity, and a specific change goal.
Clients often carry substantial professional, family, leadership, or community responsibility while functioning well in most parts of life. The work is designed to examine one consequential pattern without turning every difficulty into a diagnosis.
Session50 minutes
Standard rate$275 private pay
Typical rhythmBiweekly or monthly
Specialties
Four focused reasons to begin.
01 · EMDREMDR Counseling
Focused work on a specific memory, adverse experience, relational injury, or persistent body-level response.
02 · Discreet specialtyPornography & Compulsive Sexual BehaviorDirect, non-shaming counseling for repeated behavior, secrecy, relapse, and relationship damage.
03 · Defined changeSpecific Growth GoalsWork on a recurring personal or relational pattern, difficult transition, or self-defeating response.
04 · Whole-person workFaith & Spiritual FormationChristian-informed counseling for doubt, shame, anger at God, deconstruction, church hurt, or spiritual abuse.
St. Louis service areas
One office, with access shaped around the region.
The only New Pathways office is at 625 N Meramec Station Rd in Ballwin. The pages below describe how clients from different parts of the region may use the same practice; they do not represent additional offices.
Clayton
Professional privacy
For attorneys, finance and corporate professionals, owners, and other adults in public-facing roles.
View Clayton counseling →Chesterfield · West County
Practical office access
The most direct regional connection to the Ballwin office and the full New Pathways specialty model.
View West County counseling →Wildwood · St. Albans
Flexible distance options
Missouri telehealth and limited on-site sessions when travel makes regular office visits less practical.
View western-area counseling →Know the boundary
Focused outpatient counseling—not crisis or comprehensive psychiatric care.
New Pathways is not structured for acute crisis, medication management, detoxification, court-mandated evaluation, severe instability, or broad ongoing symptom treatment without a defined goal. A 20-minute consultation is used to compare your needs with the practice model before scheduling.
Request ConsultNext step
Compare goals before beginning.
Use the 20-minute consultation to describe the issue, ask direct questions, and decide whether this focused private-pay structure matches what you want.
Request Consult