About This Practice
An overview of how this practice actually runs, and where each part of it is set out in full.
Choosing a psychologist means deciding several things at once, and most practice websites answer only one of them. What the work is like is a different question from what it costs, which is a different question again from what happens if a session has to be cancelled, or whether a psychologist can come to a house rather than a room in a building.
Alafiora treats love obsession and love addiction, compulsive sexual behavior and sex addiction, and sexual trauma, as one interconnected system rather than three separate specialties. All of those answers exist here and none of them is buried. Reading the one that is actually the deciding factor is faster than reading a single page that tries to be all of them at once, which is why they are separate pages rather than one long account.
No section by that word. The menu holds the complete site.
Eleven Pages, Four Groups
How This Section Is Organized
The pages below are grouped by the question they answer rather than by importance, because which one matters most depends entirely on who is reading. Someone who needs to see the fee schedule before anything else and someone weighing whether their story will be understood are both in the right place, on different pages.
Nothing here requires reading in order, and nothing on this list requires a decision.
What this practice is, and who holds it.
The account of the practice itself, the psychologist behind it, and the people who actually arrive here.
The Practice
Alafiora is a boutique private-pay psychology practice treating love obsession and love addiction, compulsive sexual behavior, and sexual trauma as one connected system.
Read more about The Practice →Meet the Psychologist, Dr. Esther
Meet Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett, a licensed psychologist and the founder of Alafiora, treating love obsession, compulsive sexual behavior, and sexual trauma as one interconnected system.
Read more about Meet the Psychologist, Dr. Esther →Clients Served Here
Five composite portraits of the people who find their way to Alafiora: survivors of complex sexual trauma, executives whose compulsive sexual behavior has outpaced their control, and those carrying love addiction, limerence, or an AI-influenced attachment.
Read more about Clients Served Here →What it costs, and how paying works.
Every figure in full, including the federal cost-estimate notice, superbills, and the ways to pay that are not a credit card.
Rates and Fees
Session rates for private-pay therapy with a licensed psychologist: intake, standard, extended, and clarity sessions, plus mileage-based, all-day, or fixed-package pricing for on-location and home-based care across New Mexico and Indiana.
Read more about Rates and Fees →Payment Options
How payment works at a private-pay psychology practice: accepted payment methods, superbills for out-of-network reimbursement, HSA/FSA/HRA guidance, single-case agreements, victim compensation and trauma funds, lien therapy, sliding-scale spots, and what to do if none of these fit.
Read more about Payment Options →Good Faith Estimate (GFE)
Under the federal No Surprises Act, every self-pay client has the right to a written Good Faith Estimate of therapy costs before care begins.
Read more about Good Faith Estimate (GFE) →Concierge Psychology
The Alafiora concierge retainer covers up to twelve fifty-minute sessions a month, priority scheduling, and structured care coordination for individuals whose lives require more access than a single weekly session was built to hold.
Read more about Concierge Psychology →How care runs, and where.
The terms a client is actually agreeing to, and the geography of where sessions can be held.
Practice Policies
Alafiora's practice policies cover cancellation and rescheduling, the four-in-four continuity policy, late arrivals, between-session communication, telehealth requirements, records and release-of-information terms, and how a therapy or psychologist relationship ends when it must.
Read more about Practice Policies →Where Alafiora Practices
Alafiora offers virtual, on-location, and at-home therapy sessions throughout New Mexico and Indiana, the two states where Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett is currently a licensed psychologist.
Read more about Where Alafiora Practices →What to read before deciding.
The two pages written for someone who has not decided yet, and is not being asked to.
Getting Started
A complete walkthrough of how care at Alafiora begins, from the first read-through to the consultation, the intake session, ongoing treatment, and how care eventually ends.
Read more about Getting Started →FAQs
Answers from Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett, a licensed psychologist, on how therapy at Alafiora actually works: fees, insurance, licensed states, session format, confidentiality, diagnosis, and what happens between the first conversation and the first session.
Read more about FAQs →A Solo Practice, and What That Changes
Why Every Page Here Describes the Same Person
There is one clinician at Alafiora. Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett is a licensed psychologist and the founder of the practice, and there are no associates, no rotating providers, and no case handoffs. The person who reads a client's history in a first session is the person still holding it two years later.
That is why these pages can be this specific. A practice with a clinical team has to describe an average of what its clinicians do; this one describes what one person actually does, which is also why the fee schedule, the policies, and the availability on these pages are the real ones rather than a range. Alafiora is private pay and bills no insurance, so no diagnosis reaches a third party unless a client authorizes it directly.
Licensure in additional states is underway. What that means today is set out on Where Alafiora Practices, which names only the states where care is actually available now.
Every session at Alafiora is held by one licensed psychologist
Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett is the founder and sole practitioner of Alafiora. There are no associates, no rotating providers, and no case handoffs: the person who reads a client's history in the first session is the same person still holding it two years later. She is licensed in New Mexico and Indiana, with additional state licensure underway.
Her training is doctoral-level, which typically extends several years beyond a master's-level license in assessment, diagnosis, and the treatment of complex, overlapping presentations. She keeps a deliberately small caseload so that depth is possible, participates in ongoing peer consultation and clinical training, and maintains her own personal therapy.
Whatever brought someone to this page today is never put on trial here
A consultation is a brief conversation with no obligation attached. Those already certain they are ready are equally welcome to begin directly with a first session.