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How the housing bubble drove up the cost of therapy


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2017 Jul 21, 11:01am   1,256 views  5 comments

by tovarichpeter   ➕follow (6)   💰tip   ignore  

https://www.betterhelp.com/

I am professionally a licensed mental health practioner but I have no involvement with betterhelp. I am using it only as a model, to make my point which is that if you see a private psychotherapist face to face and in-person, at a private office not in their home, the Bay Area, most of the fee you pay almost certainly goes to pay rent for the office.

That distortion of the psychotherapy market is one the many negative side effects of the real estate bubble. And Ironically as rent has driven up the price of psychotherapy it has also created unemployment for the majority of licensed therapist who do not have a government job to support themselves.

Anyway I would be interested in comment.

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1   rigidmember   2017 Jul 21, 11:15am  

Yes, that's what we call the "cost of living" in a particular area. Overhead costs, which make up a portion of a professional rate for service, will always be affected by real estate prices. Either home prices (ie mortgage) if working out of their home or commercial (rent) if working out of an office.

2   Patrick   2017 Jul 21, 11:26am  

betterhelp.com seems like a good idea. You lose the face-to-face communication, but it does allow the therapist and the patient to be anywhere, and so to escape the crazy rents around here.

3   tovarichpeter   2017 Jul 21, 12:58pm  

Could this new online model of practice be described as "The Uberization of psychotherapy"?

5   Ceffer   2019 Aug 9, 9:32am  

How about door to door psychotherapy? The first couple of sessions are just there, anyway, to convince you that you are fucking CRAZY and need hundreds more sessions, likely with lifelong medication under the therapists' tutelage.

LibbyFuck therapy is there to convince them that their most delusional, violent and self indulgent irresponsible rantings are sanity.

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