Why does therapy cost so much?

Unlike other professions, most therapists can’t be effective as a therapist seeing 40 hours of clients per week.  Even though most therapists see clients for 45 or 50 minutes per session, this doesn’t mean that their 10-15 minutes between clients is spent relaxing.  Often times we are looking at the upcoming clients file to make sure we are staying on target with their goals, calling a doctor/psychiatrist on behalf of our client (with the client’s permission, of course), or calling urgent calls back.

A doctor and dentist often take their notes about your visit right there when they are in the room with you.  A therapist has to spend time at the end of the day writing in everyone’s file.  Also consider that a dentist can have someone else sharpen their tools for them.  A therapist is in people’s emotion all day and no one can take care of the therapist’s “tools” other than the therapist.   The more they charge often times the less clients they see and the more energy they have for you.