One of the most frequent questions we get from new clients is, “Do you take my insurance?”
It’s a great question! Our answer is always the same: We are a private pay counseling practice.
We put a lot of thought into whether or not we should take insurance. Ultimately, we decided against it. Here’s why:
Confidentiality and Privacy:
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- One of the biggest reasons we don’t accept insurance is to give you a higher level of confidentiality and privacy. When a therapist bills through insurance, they are required to provide a diagnosis and other information about the treatment. This information becomes a part of the your permanent medical record, potentially impacting your privacy. By avoiding insurance, you can feel more secure in sharing your personal experiences without a concern of it becoming part of your larger medical record.
Most Insurances Don’t Pay For Couples Counseling:
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- Many insurances don’t cover couples counseling. While we see both individual and couples at our practice, a majority of our clients come to us for couples counseling. Many clients come to us when they realize that their insurance doesn’t cover couples therapy because if they have to private pay they want to pay for experts in couples counseling.
We Don’t Want the Insurance Company to Control Your Treatment:
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- Insurance companies require therapists to follow specific protocols, limit the number of sessions, or focus on short-term solutions. But here’s the thing: the insurance companies aren’t experts in counseling, we are. By choosing not to take insurance, we don’t have play by their rules. That means our counselors can customize your treatment plans based on your unique needs: allowing for you to have a more personalized and effective therapeutic experience.
Our Counselors Are Able to Give You Quality Care:
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- Not taking insurance significantly reduces the constraints and burdens put on our therapists, which means they can show up to your session and concentrate on what’s really important: building strong relationships with their clients, finding creative ways to help you, focusing on your specific needs, and doing it without the stress of being burnt out. Healthy therapists provide higher quality counseling, which means you get a higher quality experience.
So Why Do People Choose Us If We Don’t Take Insurance?
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- We hear the same thing again and again from our clients: their therapist is worth the money. People come to Our Whole Living Counseling because we have a reputation of providing high quality, effective counseling. Our counselors are hand-picked and the highest achievers in their master’s programs. You get what you pay for – and with our therapists you get a lot.
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