She knew I'd go back to my university's Health Services and said I could call her for another appointment if I couldn't find a prescriber. So not totally ethically bereft, but that doesn't address the problem of not being able to afford her rates, so it wasn't really useful! She actively discouraged me from going to the place that I'm heading to next week, saying a bunch of her patients used to go there but came to her instead for a reason.

I leveled with the LPN that I see at Health Services, and after a behavioral health evaluation, the determination was that bipolar is so likely that they won't prescribe anymore if I don't go to therapy (even though ironically I used to be considered one of their most stable patients for controlled rx's!) So even though every therapy experience I've had has totally sucked, I'm now stuck with it.