
Joseph Vegas Verified Provider
Counselor
About Me
Joseph Vegas is a counselor in Buffalo, New York. He provides counseling through the Amherst location of Volanti Mental Health Counseling and provides counseling through a co-owned private practice, True Vibe Mental Health Counseling.
Specializing in Relationships and Child Concerns
Joe specializes in relationship issues, child attention concerns, and child behavioral concerns. He uses the Vanderbilt Assessment to provide evaluations for children ages six to 12.
Joe is in network with Medicare, Medicaid, and other insurance providers. Individual sessions cost $125, couples sessions cost $150, and a sliding fee scale is available for those who qualify.
Therapies used include Christian counseling, motivational interviewing, psychoanalytic, solution focused brief, and family systems. Joe specializes in working with Hispanic and Latino clients.
Volanti Mental Health Counseling, PLLC
Volanti Mental Health offers counseling through two locations. They offer telehealth and in person appointments. Joe counsels children, individuals, couples, and families Thursday through Sunday at the Amherst location and occasionally at the Hamburg location.Â
True Vibe Mental Health Counseling, PLLC
Joe co-owns True Vibe with Ellen Lema, LMHC. He offers a free 15 minute consultations for individuals who are interested in becoming his client. Appointments are virtual online and clients are billed following insurance contracted rates.
Payment Options
Cost
- Individual Session: $125
- Couples Session: $150
- Sliding Scale Available
Insurance Options
- Aetna
- Carelon Behavioral Health
- Highmark BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York
- Independent Health
- Medicare
- Optum
- Oscar
- Other
- Oxford
- Quest Behavioral Health
- UnitedHealthcare
Orientation & Focus
Ages Treated
Modalities
Religions
Ethnicity
Specialties
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Behavioral Issues
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Child
- Chronic Illness or Pain
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Learning Disabilities
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Parenting
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Spirituality
Treatment Options
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Couples Counseling
- Faith Based
- Family Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Psychoanalysis
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)