- Username
- jsmith721
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I pay $60 per session. Either once a week or every other.
Call the therapist you intend on seeing and ask if they offer a sliding scale. It’s essentially where even though they have a certain price, they will work with you to accommodate you so that money isn’t a barrier to treatment. As far as I know (with no personal experience with sliding scales), this is only a thing without insurance. With insurance, whatever your copay usually is for dr appointments will be what you pay (for me, $30). The amount of sessions varies depending on the therapist and your individual needs, but if you can only afford an appointment once in a while than I would still say that’s much better than nothing, as most of recovery happens outside of the therapist’s office anyways. Good luck and I hope you find someone who can help you feel better
Depends on your severity too. But I think seeing someone once a week is on the low scale if it is severe and you just start out so if you can afford it and have found someone you click with and who gives you the tough love you need to do ERP, to do it intensely in the beginning. I don't know what that means for you, but I'd say 3 times a week to get started maybe? Just to start because the beginning is the hardest for everyone and you are gonna need the sessions then probably. I'd make it less after a few weeks or so and also if you do not see results over 2 weeks make sure to give your therapist feedback and figure it out together. Going on with something that doesn't work is something many of us have done (talk therapy is something I had done for years when it is not effective) and it only gets you more hopeless and frustrated. So don't let things like that go on for months okay? Take care of yourself!
My experiences in NC USA are the ones I saw that were super helpful didn’t take any insurance so they were around 100 dollars a session
I’ve mostly lived in cities with a high cost of living so the fees have ranged from $100-200/hr. Sessions are usually once a week for one hour. And they’re usually out of network for me, so my insurance doesn’t kick in until I’ve met a really high deductible. It sucks, but I prioritize treatment as much as possible with my budget. Sometimes you have to save up, sometimes you have to put it on a credit card, sometimes they’ll work with you on a sliding scale or offer a payment plan.
I’ve been diagnosed with OCD (strongest HOCD) and have worked on it with a therapist for the past 5 years. It got better, while not completely going away. But now that I have a boyfriend and the stakes seem to be much higher in my mind, my HOCD and ROCD have big time flared up. I went to a psychiatrist to consider options of medication to someone who said he treats OCD. HE HAD NO IDEA WHAT HOCD OR ROCD OR ANYTHING WAS and told me that I may be bi-sexual etc. etc. etc. My therapist told me that this happens so often due to lack of understanding. Has anyone had a similar experience with someone misdiagnosing you and saying your intrusive thoughts might actually be true?
Just typical isn't it. Finally find a private psychotherapist who I believe Could really help me in this battle to overcome my harm ocd, they even said they are very used to treating this particular type of ocd with success, and I just can't afford it £70 a session I told them I can't afford it they don't offer discounts but were willing to do it for £65, I still can't afford it. Feel so stuck. Suppose I'll just have to continue in my search
why me why me that’s the question I ask myself every day every moment every minute every second of my life, my sexual orientation, obsessive compulsive disorder has been driving me crazy, I don’t know what to do no OCD for session is $170 and I live in UK. I am living in on benefits I can’t pay $170 for each session and I really need my OCD therapy like that way. I don’t like girls that way I don’t like girls that as the question I asked or rather say to myself every day every minute every second every second I get I only love love boys love men why is it so hard for my OCD to understand that? I don’t have a clue. Please can you help me I’m not asking for reassurance but I like to put everything in a writing message, so I can be with the unwanted thoughts I get about my sexuality, generally hate girls in that way my urges, my images and my unwanted thoughts are killing me right now
Share your thoughts so the Community can respond