Hi Everyone,
Thanks for all the responses. I'm glad to hear so many of you had good experience with interns. It's good to know if I decide to pursue it that way.
When I was in the state I moved from and all my SSI money was my own, I could pay for therapy no problem. I couldn't pay like $100, but maybe $75 or $80 a session. That was on the person's sliding scale.
Now almost all of my money is going towards the facility I am living in, and residents only get $90 a month. I have some extra money put aside, but want to use it carefully. I don't want to go as cheap as possible just to be cheap. I majored in counseling in college (now I have my doubts about that being a career for me) but that's to say I know some about the work it takes to be in that field.The reason I said $20 or under is that that's the fee that would make sense for something long-term, and I'd still have some money for other things.
Also because I moved I had to totally re-apply for medicade, and haven't even been able to send in the application materials yet because the woman who did that is out of work at the moment.And it turns out that the psychologists who come to this facility don't take medicade just medicare, so I can't even see them. So things are very complicated.