What you may be looking for is someone who offers a sliding scale, as many practices do. Try a Google search for your area, or maybe search the United Way website.
One example, just from a quick search (not knowing where you are, or really much about NH)
http://www.smhc-nh.org/about_us/our-accessibility/
Perhaps they can refer you to another place that also takes sliding scale that is in your area
I hope that helps.
I pay a $35 copay, for both my psychiatrist and psychologist. I couldn’t afford more than twice that, and at that I would have to cut down my visits by half.
Because…?
I have found therapy to be extremely helpful. My former dog phobia was the least of my problems, but the [del]help[/del] guidance my therapist gave me in overcoming it was worth every penny – and of course she helped me in other areas. One good thing about her was her insistence from the get-go that therapy should not be a life-long or indefinite thing – that if we were still doing the same thing in six months, she was doing it wrong and I would need to find someone else.
Therapy can be a lifesaver.
Or perhaps some of them will confirm the hypothesis.
I’m perfectly serious. Some few may have managed to work through their problems, but in my experience most have not and never will. My experience consists mostly of getting a BA in Psychology and attending 2 years of grad school. I eventually accepted my… ummm… eccentricities and stopped worrying about them. Changed career paths and never did anything with psych.
I recall hearing about a controlled scientific study which concluded patients actually fare comparably whether they talk to a therapist, bartender, barber or whomever.
My 1,000th post- yee haw.
I am sorry for your loss, but since money is obviously so tight, I can’t see how this could possibly be a good use of your limited resources.
Please look into a community-based support group, which are often free, and may give you a chance to meet others who are going thru similar situations such as yourself, and who can truly empathize, possibly much moreso than someone who is only willing to listen for as long as you can continue to pay her…
Good Luck!!!
I’ve always done fine working things out on my own. I would not be able to talk to someone about “whatever”, where “whatever” was something I was having trouble dealing with.
I used to have a horrible fear of spiders. It made camping a minor pain. One day I realized I had to change. Looking at it totally rationally, I looked into the spiders I was likely to encounter in my area. Non could kill me. Even the largest is many orders of magnitude smaller than I am. Once I realized my fear was not rational, I began seeking out spiders, letting them walk on me, and smashing them with my palm.
It’s just a YMMV kinda thing I guess.
No kidding. For the severely depressed, suicide is the most rational choice.
Most Hospice programs have grief counseling/support groups that meet free of charge. Querying Hospice New Hampshire Grief Support, this is the first entry.
StG
for humor relief: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/south-florida-sex-therapist-ordered-to-stop-treating-1901304.html
so yeah, if one therapist manipulates you into having a crush on him, there is another pervert therapist standing ready to treat you, without any degree of psychopathology that would otherwise impair his ability to practice as a licensed mental health counselor. And if he is too sexually aggressive with women he can just be reassigned to “treat” men. But if he is also told to undergo therapy himself, what will happen to his therapist? :eek: The mind boggles 
15 years ago, I was paying $90 for a 50 minute session. I would imagine the price has gone up considerably since then.
THIS! I’ll even expand on this. When I was 15, I was having issues with my parents (who wasn’t). This was just normal stuff, nothing out of the ordinary or violent. Just me asserting my independence.
They didn’t know how to handle it, so they sent me to a shrink. After a bit, he proceeded to put me in a mental hospital. As in NOW (walked me right across the parking lot and admitted me).
I spent 6 weeks in there with NO contact with anyone for the first 3-4 weeks and then my parents could come see me after that, but noone else. No phone calls, no letters, no nothing.
I finally got released and went back to the shrink. In our last session, he said (and I QUOTE!!!):
“You know, I think sending you there might have been a mistake.”
REALLY?? YA THINK?? PUTTING ME IN A PLACE WHERE MY ROOMMATE HAD KILLED HIS FATHER? (He was a good guy, though).
Turned me completely off of shrinks… Asshats, all of them! :mad:
You see the logical error you committed in that last paragraph, yes?
In after-insurance dollars, I probably wouldn’t pay any of the options listed.
What about no-insurance dollars?
I guess you could say that’s true… (If you mean about my roommate). I’m just glad we got along well was all I was trying to say.
It’s amazing how many emotions come back just thinking about it.
If it’s too expensive with insurance…
How much do I have to pay to NOT get counseled?
I meant that you extrapolated your bad experience with ONE therapist to cover ALL therapists.
The most I ever paid for a therapist was $250/session at one the most influential and respected PTSD research centers in the world. Probably ranks up there with one of the better decisions I’ve ever made. A few thousand is nothing compared to being able to sleep at night. It’s just money.
That said, I do sympathize with the lack of access to mental health care that people struggle with due to lack of insurance/inability to afford treatment. And it pisses me off.
But if you do have the means, I think any amount is worth peace of mind. Accepting of course that there is a degree of risk involved, since no treatment can help everyone. I don’t know much about the science supporting the efficacy of grief counseling, so I can’t comment on just how great a risk it would be. But I would advise anyone looking into therapy to do their research on what works.
If you have the means … yes. Those of us without the means just go untreated.