I´ve read about several types of therapy and knows that insurance companies offers time limited therapy, often around 8-10 times. The therapists are aware of this condition when they begin to work with a client. I now question how this time limited therapy can be serious? I know that some might benefit from this kind of therapy if their problems aren´t too big to handle in such few sessions.

But you at the same time often hear about people feel left out when having to quit therapy just because of money and the core issue here is how you can consider the therapist him- och herself to be serious if working under an insurance companies terms.

It´s one thing that both therapist and client knows that the number of sessions will be limited but what the client most often doesn´t know if it will be enough or not or how it will affect him or her. As an example psychodynamic therapy often has a treatment time of at least six months to be effective and although this, the therapy form is used in time limited therapy.

If the therapist knows this, realises that the sessions won´t be enough and still keeps the client in therapy, how can this be serious? They should instead refer the client to a therapy option he or she can afford as soon as it´s obvious that the time limited therapy won´t be enough. To begin therapy that can´t be continued knowing that the client won´t be able to pay for him- or herself after the sessions paid by insurance- how can a serious therapist devote him- or herself to this?