When Money Comes Up in Therapy
Two Ways to Make Your Fee Policies Clear and Easy to Talk About
By Lynne Stevens - Most therapists were never coached about how to reconcile the closeness of the therapeutic encounter with the fact that therapy is also a business. It has taken me years to understand that therapy is not separate from the exchange of money. I am in this profession because I care and have skills and knowledge that can help, and I also need to make a living.
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A Fee Policy Can Clarify the Therapeutic Relationship
Money is an underdiscussed topic in graduate programs, supervision and peer groups, yet every therapist I know has felt the awkwardness of seeming mercenary when insisting to a client who has fallen behind that he or she needs to pay.
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When Money Comes Up in Therapy
Two Ways to Make Your Fee Policies Clear and Easy to Talk About
By Lynne Stevens - Most therapists were never coached about how to reconcile the closeness of the therapeutic encounter with the fact that therapy is also a business. It has taken me years to understand that therapy is not separate from the exchange of money. I am in this profession because I care and have skills and knowledge that can help, and I also need to make a living.
Daily Blog
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The Bottom Line
A Fee Policy Can Clarify the Therapeutic Relationship
Money is an underdiscussed topic in graduate programs, supervision and peer groups, yet every therapist I know has felt the awkwardness of seeming mercenary when insisting to a client who has fallen behind that he or she needs to pay.
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Lynne Stevens, C.S.W., B.C.D., has been a psychotherapist in private practice in New York for 20 years.
