Family Therapy at CC Lothian
What will it cost us?
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CCL
To run the various services at CCL, CCL depends on the contributions clients make. Paying for their counseling or therapy also helps clients make best use of it too.
Clients are now asked to pay for their sessions in advance according to their ability to pay. The minimum cost per session is set at £20.
To make ends meet costs CCL over £50 for each one hour session. So the minimum is still a 60% discount rate.
However, no one in need of help is turned away. So, at the first appointment, the counsellor and clients discuss further what is a fair rate for them and for CCL.
Family therapy sessions are usually longer than an hour. Sometimes clients will see two therapists as a team. So you get even more for your money from FT at CCL!
HELP TO THINK ABOUT MONEY
In Britain we are all used to getting high quality expensive help free at the point of delivery. This is thanks to taxpayers, government, the NHS and other statutory services.
We and our clients have to think afresh about the value of the kind of help you get from CCL.
CCL cannot provide services to anyone if it doesn't now raise the money to run itself and the services. Fair or not, we and the world - through our banks imploding and our democratic system - now face major cutbacks in funding to agencies like CCL.
But even before that change, taxpayers and governments don't see delivering personal and relationship help to everyone free. That kind of help is not really the same thing as the NHS treating illnesses people cannot help having.
THINK OF IT THIS WAY
It may help you to do this fresh thinking about money - and support the more realistic rates CCL now asks for - if you think what you might pay for a family outing, or a night out for two. It's probably in the same range of £20 minimum and more likely £50 to £100.
Next remember that the benefits of those outings last for only those few hours.
A few sessions of family therapy are often enough to make lasting positive changes for all the family for much longer ahead than that.
If you wait and risk your relationship problems getting worse, you will then have more serious suffering, risk and even disorders - which then become your ticket into the NHS. There you may still not find the family therapy help you need.
The NHS will cost you nothing of course. But think of the other costs in trouble and delay and unhappiness - and what you will pay (in money and other ways) to keep your spirits up while you wait.
So there's much more than you might think to the question: "What will it cost us?"
To run the various services at CCL, CCL depends on the contributions clients make. Paying for their counseling or therapy also helps clients make best use of it too.
Clients are now asked to pay for their sessions in advance according to their ability to pay. The minimum cost per session is set at £20.
To make ends meet costs CCL over £50 for each one hour session. So the minimum is still a 60% discount rate.
However, no one in need of help is turned away. So, at the first appointment, the counsellor and clients discuss further what is a fair rate for them and for CCL.
Family therapy sessions are usually longer than an hour. Sometimes clients will see two therapists as a team. So you get even more for your money from FT at CCL!
HELP TO THINK ABOUT MONEY
In Britain we are all used to getting high quality expensive help free at the point of delivery. This is thanks to taxpayers, government, the NHS and other statutory services.
We and our clients have to think afresh about the value of the kind of help you get from CCL.
CCL cannot provide services to anyone if it doesn't now raise the money to run itself and the services. Fair or not, we and the world - through our banks imploding and our democratic system - now face major cutbacks in funding to agencies like CCL.
But even before that change, taxpayers and governments don't see delivering personal and relationship help to everyone free. That kind of help is not really the same thing as the NHS treating illnesses people cannot help having.
THINK OF IT THIS WAY
It may help you to do this fresh thinking about money - and support the more realistic rates CCL now asks for - if you think what you might pay for a family outing, or a night out for two. It's probably in the same range of £20 minimum and more likely £50 to £100.
Next remember that the benefits of those outings last for only those few hours.
A few sessions of family therapy are often enough to make lasting positive changes for all the family for much longer ahead than that.
If you wait and risk your relationship problems getting worse, you will then have more serious suffering, risk and even disorders - which then become your ticket into the NHS. There you may still not find the family therapy help you need.
The NHS will cost you nothing of course. But think of the other costs in trouble and delay and unhappiness - and what you will pay (in money and other ways) to keep your spirits up while you wait.
So there's much more than you might think to the question: "What will it cost us?"
