I have a question for all of you. Given that this is happening because of something happening in the therapist's life, shouldn't the therapist be making reasonable accommodations to ensure that the patient can still financially afford therapy instead of telling the patient to figure it out? I think that regardless of whether a patient is on a sliding scale or not, if something like that happens in the therapist's life, then it's on the shoulders of the therapist's to make reasonable financial accommodations.

What do you guys think about that? Forget about how it's still less expensive for me to see her because I'm paying her 25 dollars for each session. Few to no other therapist would take that. And the 25 dollars was set by the clinic she previously worked at. She kept that fee when she switched to private practice. My thinking that it's simply a principle. Something happened in the therapist's life. It's changing the trajectory of the patient's therapeutic work. So the therapist has to be the one who makes the accommodations. It's not the patient's responsibility. Why the heck am I paying for the consequences of things that happened in her personal life? How is that on the shoulders of the patient? Shouldn't it be on the shoulders of the therapist from where and whom the change and problem originated?

@Amyjay: I'm not sure. I'm schizoid, an introvert, and have social anxiety. The therapist is my main support. I have friends who I communicate through text, but we don't hang out. Everyone is just so busy these days, it seems.