how much does your therapist charge for therapy?

$75 for a 45 minute session. My co-payment is $15 of that. Private practise Psychologist.

I think she must have a good deal on her office and has two other therapists using it part of the days she's not there.

My T, Clinical Psychologist ranges from 120 - 185. When I was working I paid $160. Then when I lost my job, she lowered her rate to $100 for me. Now that my EI's run out, I'm going back to school, and I'm on a very limited income based on what I'm able to withdraw from my retirement funds, she's seeing me for free and letting me run a tab until I find a job again.

My Psychiatrist is covered by public Healthcare. I pay an annual $750 health care premium as part of my taxes, and get healthcare, and I've certainly gotten my money's worth. Psychiatrist's billable rate in Ontario is $150 / hour.

My addictions Dr. is an MD so she's also covered by public healthcare.

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$100.00 for a ful 60 min., and she's a PhD.

I pay $50 for fifty minutes. It's a sliding scale and I have no insurance.

$30 for 60 minutes. She has a private practice at a church. I'm very thankful for her low fee as I don't have insurance!

120 an hour out of pocket

One good thing about Canada is that we get to see Therapists and Psychiatrists with our monthly Medical Plan which for a single person is around $72. It doesn't include Psycologists though, I think their around $100 an hr. I've never met anyone who's ever gone to see one, but I hear their pretty good.

Kieffer Sutherland, the actor... It was his Grandfather Tommy Douglas who is called the father of our health care system. It's been really good, but some big changes need to happen soon.

60 euro out of pocket, no.insurance

i am so glad i'm in the uk when i read posts like this. there's no way in hell i could afford to see my T if i was paying out of pocket. i really feel for you all. it's another strain that people just don't need when they're having mental health issues!

$110 and to be honest I am not sure if he is billing a whole hour or not.. I usually only in there for 30-40mins.

T1 Psychologist Private Practice
$120 an hour
insurance 1 $13 copay
insurance policy 2 $25 copay
insurance policy 3 $40 copay

T2 LCSW Private Practice
$120 per 50 minutes (but she usually runs up to an hour sometimes 1 hour 15mins)
$40 copay

I posted early that T charges $90/hour. I didn't say that my copay is only $20/hour and after Aug 1 my family deductible will be met, so no more copays at all.

Very grateful for good private health insurance.

wow! it is interesting to hear the different responses. As the person starting the question i pay $120/hour. i pay out of pocket until reach a certain amount and then now i pay $35 a time(i think)maybe a little less. I am so lucky to find a therapist with a phd for that cheap. In my area, every therapist who has phd charge $250 /40 min and the first session in $350. social workers are like 110-160/45 min. thank god i found this nice man who is good or else no therapy for me.

community mental health trauma t. no cost
1 hour every 2 weeks

$135 for 50 minutes is her rate if I wanted to pay on my own. But I use my insurance and instead have a $25 copay.

I pay $256 per session (45-50 min) which is a lot now that I've went through and read everyone's responses.

PhD in private practice. He charges $130 for 45-50 minute sessions.

That does seem really high. Is this a psychiatrist doing therapy rather than a PhD or licensed therapist?

$125/50 minutes for a PsyD. Luckily my co-pay was only $15, otherwise I would've been SOL. Actually, I'm grateful she even took my insurance, because I was only one of two clients she took insurance from. She made an exception for me and must have allowed another person afterwards to do the same.

[edit] I should add that she usually sees me for a full hour though. Also, I did have a $500 deductible (each year) for ALL healthcare, but I met it through a combination of out-of-pocket to T and other docs.

After reading everyone else's responses, I feel really lucky! My T bills $140/hour but my insurance pays virtually everything. I only pay $10/session. No deductible.

I find it interesting that in some places it makes a difference to the cost whether the T is a PhD or not. The practice I used to go to had about a dozen Ts, some of whom had PhDs and some who hadn't, but there was no difference in the fee, and it was not something that was advertised - I know this only because I looked at the presentation of the various Ts on the clinic website. (Clearly I'm not against PhDs being paid more money I just think it's really interesting.) Ts do have to be licenced psychotherapists to be allowed to practice, though, unless they call themselves something else ("life coach" for instance - you don't have to get any particular training to call yourself that!) And it takes approximately as long to get a psychT licence as it takes to get a PhD if you're diligent.

In Sweden, the major difference is whether it's a T/Pdoc who is "in the system", i.e. paid by the county, or not; if they are, you'll never pay more than about US$ 160 per year. (that's in my county but we have an fairly high maximum medical fee.) If they are outside the system, the sky's the limit.

Wow! $256! I've never heard of such a high fee! Do you have insurance?

That's really interesting, Apteryx. My interest is heightened by all the debate going on right now in the US over changes in our healthcare system. Here, a PhD will invariably get a higher fee - primarily because their education and training takes longer. And although I think education and training for a psychiatrist is about the same as for a PhD, a psychiatrist gets a much higher fee than a PhD simply because it's a medical degree. Mine charges $75 for 15 min med-mgmt, which is the equivalent of $300/hr.

And one thing to always keep in mind with respect to it sounding like fees are higher in the US, is that our income taxes are lower - do not include taxes for a national healthcare system (yet) - so we have more disposable income. We do usually pay for insurance through our employer, and how much that costs can vary wildly, but what we end up with is not too different than in countries that have government-provided health care.. which is that we actually pay from $0 to around $50 a session. I pay $25. The rub here is that people with mental health problems often cannot hold onto a job, which means they don't have insurance and are either unable to get access to healthcare (which is very bad), or they are reliant on charitable health care, which isn't always available everywhere.

Farmergirl: She is a Licensed Psychologist PhD. Very well trained and knowledgeable. She's gone back and forth between the east and west coast for her training. A very intelligent woman I tell ya but terrible at computers. Ha!!

Crescent: I do have insurance. I have a very high deductible of $3020 per calendar year. Once I've met that, then the insurance will take care of the rest. So I just have to budget for it wisely. I tell ya, getting therapy hasn't been easy. Now that T has rec DBT, I'll just need to find some other source of income to help pay for DBT for next year if it extends into the new year that is. T doesn't know anything about how my insurance works and I don't bother to tell her. She has no idea how hard I work and budget my finances to see her. It hasn't been a huge barrier yet and I hope it won't be.

It is a huge eye opener to know that I have the most expensive T on this board so far (that is to those of us who've responded to this thread). I was thinking that $ 256 was average. Boy......was I wrong or what?

170 an hr , co pay 25.00 a session and no deductible to be met. Unlimited visit , and he's a PsyD.