Psychotherapeutic Mistakes and Failures: Payment Issues

We will discuss: defining your “professional value” as an internal process of a therapist. Underestimating and overestimating oneself; setting a fixed cost for sessions VS discussing fees with each client individually: pros and cons of approaches; therapy during deep personal or large-scale social crises: how flexible can a therapist be in payment matters? raising fees during long-term therapy: how much, when, and how to talk about it; payment for missed sessions: in which cases is this point included in the therapeutic contract? When and how to discuss it? pro bono therapy, therapy paid for by third parties: features, opportunities, and limitations. We will talk about these and other important issues in the context of how payment questions affect therapeutic relationships, what symbolic and immediate significance they acquire. Let’s discuss how problems with setting or changing the fee amount can manifest hidden issues in therapeutic relationships. Let’s talk about how the fee amount affects the specialist’s feelings in their work, the balance between what the specialist receives and gives. We will consider the most common mistakes therapists make in payment matters. Natalia Popova – supervisor of the Russian Psychotherapeutic Association and the European Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

Difficulty: medium

Duration: 8 hours