2 part question:

1. If one misses an appointment with a therapist cuz they made a mistake about the time/location/or something came up last minute [obviously not talking chronic case of missing appointments which would be very different], why should one be responsible for an honest mistake or circumstance and pay for it? Which leads to...

2. ...if one does have to pay cuz it's the therapist's professional income, time is money, what about the reverse? Why can't a client charge the therapist and get a credit for the next time? Isn't the client's time just as valuable? Isn't this inauthnetic and hypocritical to have different standards? Further, there is already an imbalance in power, why do therapists add to this imbalance like this?

Am I the only one who thinks this?