For Love or Money: The Fee in Feminist Therapy

by Marcia Hill, Ellyn Kaschak

Realize how you can charge what your services are worth and still care about your clients!For Love or The Fee in Feminist Therapy examines the rarely talked about topic of payment in therapy, taking a symbolic and psychological look at the meaning of fees to both the psychologist and client. This intelligent book offers firsthand advice and information concerning how gender can make a difference in your feelings about fees and how the managed care environment affects women clients. For Love or Money will help you handle your concerns about fees as it discusses payment for missed sessions, bartering, the meaning of fees with African-American women and with women in prison, and a model for pro bono work.Since most therapists don’t discuss fees with colleagues, For Love or Money provides you with a way to gain information that might not otherwise be available to you. As a therapist, you will explore perspectives on what other therapists think about fees and what feelings other therapists have about the amounts they charge for their services. Some of the fee issues you will examine

132 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 1999

About the author

Marcia Hill, EdD, is a psychologist who has spent over 20 years practicing psychotherapy. She is Co-Editor of the journal Women & Therapy and a member and past Chair of the Feminist Therapy Institute. In addition to therapy, Dr. Hill does occasional teaching, writing, and consulting in the areas of feminist therapy theory and practice. The Editor of More than a Mirror: How Clients Influence Therapists' Lives (The Haworth Press, Inc., 1997), she has co-edited three other Haworth books: Classism and Feminist Therapy: Counting Costs (1996); Couples' Therapy: Feminist Perspectives (1996); and Children's Rights, Therapists' Responsibilities: Feminist Commentaries (1997). She is currently in private practice in Montpelier, Vermont.

-from Breaking the Rules: Women in Prison and Feminist Therapy

Reviews

[Bj · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish someone had shared this book with me a few years earlier. And I wish I was more comfortable with making more money