OK so my T is very expensive ($225/session) and doesn't take insurance, but she is very good at what she does and a researcher at a top university. The only way I am able to afford her is that my parents help me out, b/c they happen to have money. However, I myself am not rich at all. I am in grad school and living off student loans.
So for example, my T's office is in a pretty posh place, and I am pretty sure all her other clients live around the area (based on something she said once), whereas I commute more than an hour to see her. And she knows that I don't have a lot of money.
Anyways, I asked her for referrals for pdocs so I could get a scrip for Ambien, b/c I was going to someone else at Student Health who was awful. So she gave me the names of a couple pdocs whom she works with. I called two of them, one of whom didn't call me back. The second one I called (I had to mention my T's name, I think that's why she called me back) told me she charged $400/visit and didn't take insurance, then immediately asked me when I would like an appointment. I was so taken aback that I scheduled an appt, then had to call 20 mins. later and say I couldn't go b/c I couldn't afford it.
So I am feeling a little stupid now. Like, why would she give me the names of all these doctors I can't afford? I mean, I should have specified that I needed someone that takes my dad's insurance plan, but it still kind of bothered me, b/c she knows I get stressed about money. I do realize that she has a lot of wealthy clients who can probably afford to pay $400 per session, and so I guess she just referred me to those pdocs without thinking about my financial situation. I guess it just got me thinking, "Wow, most of T's clients are probably super wealthy," and also I wonder if she just thinks my parents will pay for my pdoc as well (they won't). I don't know, I guess it just bothered me, and plus, all my friends don't really have a lot of money, so I forget there are people out there that do have that kind of money. And some of those people are T's clients. I feel liek sometimes she forgets that I don't have a lot of money, but she also knows that I don't ask for any additional help from my parents. What do you all think? Am I just being too sensitive?