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” ‘The more education a therapist has, the more he usually charges. In a comparison of fees by industry newsletter Psychotherapy Finances, marriage and family therapists charge around $60 to $90 per session; psychologists, $70 to $100 per session; and psychiatrists, $90 to $150 per session.’ “

” ‘Someone who is referred with obsessive-compulsive disorder may find that his therapist was not really trained in that area. ‘ … many therapists lost substantial income during the 1990s, when businesses shifted to managed-care insurance. As a result, some practitioners don’t feel they can afford to turn away patients.”

” ‘I use one approach—and it might not be the one you need.’
Therapy comes in many flavors. Among the classic approaches, ‘cognitivebehavioral’ focuses on changing the patient’s thought and behavior habits, while ‘psychodynamic’ stresses the role of early and current relationships, often with an emphasis on the one between patient and therapist. Then there are the newer, less mainstream approaches. For example, Emotional Freedom Techniques stimulate the body’s meridian points, as in acupuncture, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often used to treat victims of trauma, uses objects waved in front of the eye to reduce stress.”

Read the entire article at SmartMoney’s Ten Things Your Therapist Won’t Tell You