I like them both, a lot, so far. I've been going to my therapist since April 1st, and my psych nurse since April 24th, once a week for each of them.

But my psych nurse said at our last session, that she could offer medication management or therapy, or both , but if I'm just going to her for the medication side, she would have to cut our appointments to 15 minutes from now on, and bi-weekly instead of weekly, for my insurance to approve the visits. And I can't see both her and my therapist for therapy, the insurance won't pay for both.

She left it for me to decide - whether to go to her for both meds & therapy, or continue going to my therapist for therapy and just see her for meds.

I'm conflicted! I like them both. But I'm not sure I want the shorter sessions with my pnurse.

I guess I'll just keep going to both for a while, and see how it goes with the shorter med appointments.

But in some ways it would be a lot more convenient & cost-effective to just see my pnurse, and not the therapist. I would only be paying one copay a week, not two. That saves me $50/month. And then it's just one appointment I have to fit into my schedule, which also helps since I work and have classes on Fridays & Saturdays.

But then...I do like my therapist, and he can do hypnotherapy, my pnurse does not do hypnotherapy. I do want to see what that's like, just see if I like it or not - never tried it. Curious about hypno-birthing too if I ever have another child, and if I try hypno-therapy I could learn the techniques to use for that later. And, he works in his wife's physical therapy clinic, so he will allow me to use their gym to work out, for free!! That is a huge bonus that you rarely get with a T!! He will even be my personal trainer if I want.

But...(ok...lots of buts!) if I continue to see both of them, then I'm not really "saving" any money by using his gym vs. singing up for the YMCA. It would be $30 bucks a month to use the YMCA gym - versus at least $50 a month more in copays to see both of them. And I didn't ask him this, but I assume he would want me to pay him if I used him as a personal trainer.

And...money may be tighter for us now, because I'm going to go part-time at work from now thru July. And I have to pay for the hotel stays & gas to get to my CPA review courses (they are in a bigger city, 3 hour drive away). Gas is $4 bucks a gallon now, and my Subaru gets decent mileage but it's no hybrid! Boss paid for the tuition and test fees, but won't pay for the travel since I chose to do the in-class version instead of the online or CD version of the course. I did in-class so I could stay on track - I always procrastinate and slack off if I'm studying on my own.

Gosh, I just don't know. What would you do? Keep seeing both for a while? Go to the pnurse for therapy, quit seeing my therapist?