[atisketatasket]

I ask because No. 1 takes payment and checks the next few appointments at the end of the hour. No. 2 does it at the beginning.

I'm trying to decide which I prefer. No. 2 doesn't want to deal with payment at the end if a session has been emotional for a client, which I can see. I don't know why No. 1 follows the traditional route, but administrative stuff at the end helps refocus my mind on the outside world instead of the therapy world, which is also useful.

[Leah123]

I paid per minute when I did online therapy- so as the session progressed, payment was instant. For email sessions, I paid at the conclusion of the email thread.

Prior to that, when I saw a T in person, I paid at the end of the session.

Currently, I pay my T for one month at a time, in advance. I love that. (She said I didn't need to pay in advance, end of month was fine I suppose, but I prefer it this way.)

[stopdog]

They both have indicated they would bill monthly, but I prefer paying at the end of each appointment so if I don't go back, I have no more contact.
I watch the time and so I know when the appointment ends. I stand up, toss money on the table that separates her from clients, and walk out.

[Crook32]

Mine automatically bills my credit card for the copay after I have had my session. I don't even need to stop at the desk on my way out.

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I was usually the last appointment of the day, so the secretary would take care of my payment before because she was usually gone by the time I was finished. Otherwise, it was at the end of session.

[ruh roh]

At the end. I pull my check or cash out and attempt to put it on the table next to her chair, but she takes it before I can do that and thanks me. It would feel weird to do that at the beginning, but also kind of honest. Here's your money for talking to me.

We don't do scheduling during appts since I'm same time/day each week.

Originally Posted by ruh roh

At the end. I pull my check or cash out and attempt to put it on the table next to her chair, but she takes it before I can do that and thanks me. It would feel weird to do that at the beginning, but also kind of honest. Here's your money for talking to me.

We don't do scheduling during appts since I'm same time/day each week.

That's why I like dealing with the secretary about scheduling and billing. My T is just for T, not the paperwork crud.

[Willowleaf]

I have her bank details and put the correct amount into her account at the end of each month depending on how many sessions I have had.

I only have to pay a couple of times a year; after that, I've paid the maximum fee for health care for the next twelve months and don't need to pay my therapist anything except when I've had to cancel a session. At those sessions when I have to pay, I do it at the beginning of the session, and all other admin is also dealt with at the start of sessions.

With my ex-T, I received a monthly bill - I did not like that because it felt like an infringement on my privacy. I don't want any secretary or other staff involved (my current T has no secretary, and although he has to bill the county, he only gives them my national ID number and the number of sessions I've had so there is very little personal info involved), and besides it meant that my H was keeping tabs.

I have a friend who really resented the fact that his T insisted on taking payment at the end; my friend ended up changing Ts, for a number of reasons including that one.

[musinglizzy]

insurance deals with that.

I pay at the end of a session. I like it because he doesn't have to cut me off; when I get my purse out it is a non- verbsl signal of intent that I'm bringing the session to a close. It makes me feel more in control of the end of the session.

I said "some other arrangement" because when I saw her in person in the beginning, I paid her at the end of each session as we were scheduling the next one. When she moved and we started phone sessions, I mailed her checks usually in advance of session but sometimes after one but in advance of others depending on my finances. Now she's moving back to town and I'll be seeing her in person again, and I don't know how we'll do payments. I imagine I'll go back to paying at the end of the session. We still have to work out all the details, she's in the process of moving this week.

I wire her some money every 2-4 weeks.

My T takes payment at start because if people are upset and disconnected they don't have to deal with the whole paying thing at the end and can just leave.

[divine1966]

I pay co pay before or after session. Insurance covers the rest. With my previous t I wrote a check at the end of the session

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[junkDNA]

he emails me the invoice, i collect like a months worth, then pay

[LonesomeTonight]

I pay the administrative assistant/receptionist before the session, though I've had to pay after a couple times if she wasn't there or I was late. I prefer paying before, so I don't have to deal with it at the end. I think I'd feel weird actually handing my T, marriage counselor, and p-doc money directly, so I like that they're part of a practice, and I handle it with another person. I pay the full fee up front, then they send a claim to my insurance, and I get a check in the mail for partial reimbursement (60%) from the insurance company.

[laxer12]

My T works at a practice that has a computer system that does it. I gave T my credit card information the first session and the computer remembers it. I think she usually goes into the system at the end of the day and charges my card.

I like it because I don't even realize I'm paying for it which takes some of the stress off of me. I know it may not be the safest method to have the system store my card information but I trust my T and the system. It is a huge convenience so it's worth it.

My ex-therapist was the only one in the building and I paid him at the end. He didn't have a secretary or anyone helping him.

The last two I saw worked at a clinic and I just paid at the window as I was leaving.

[rainbow8]

I used to write my check at the end of each session but now I do it the beginning. I like to get the money part over with..

[aetheorist]

insurance handles it, then i receive a bill for whatever is left

[PinkFlamingo99]

I see mine in outpatient psych @ the hospital and it's covered by medicare (Canada).

I give her money at the beginning of the session. I feel like I'm putting money into a coin-operated therapy machine.

My T bills insurance then sends me a monthly PayPal invoice for me to pay my copay.

I did a consultation with a T, and I paid him my copay at the end of the session. He used his iPhone to take my payment, and I made a comment to him about how my signature looked like a kindergartener wrote it. He said it was ok, because one time he had a client who was angry at the end of a session and they just signed "done" in the signature box. LOL Totally sounds like something I would do.

[ameliaxxx]

At the end with a check before I leave and at the same time we make another appointment. I usually get my **** together it I have to before I go. I don't want anyone seeing me cry.

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