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If you’re in the US, does your insurance cover therapy? Many do. A lot of practices also have sliding scales if you don’t have insurance and have a hard time paying out of pocket
Does it cover gender affirming therapists who you can trust coming out to? Will it continue to cover the therapists that works best with you, or will someone you were seeing suddenly become unavailable? Is there a copay? Do you even have a good enough job to not have terrible insurance?
I'm on Medicaid from low income and my therapy is fully covered, zero copay. I'm sure it depends a lot on state and private insurance though :(
On government funded healthcare that not everyone can be on, especially if the right has anything to say about it.
My job isn’t incredible, but the insurance is decent. For me, the copay is $25 a visit, and it’s BCBS, so almost everyone takes it. So I recognize I’m lucky in that sense. But yeah, I was able to find an LGBTQ-affirming practice, and I was actually able to follow my therapist when she briefly changed practices, and my insurance worked the same.
Where you’re located makes a huge difference though, I know there are a lot fewer options out in the country than in a more progressive city
Maybe insurance "covers" therapy, but in practice most insurance pays so little therapists couldn't live on it, so most therapists don't even take insurance. Sure they "cover" therapy in the sense that if you can find a therapist who takes your insurance they might pay for therapy, but really it's fucking insurance they're going to try to screw you. Even places like Kaiser who have their own inhouse therapists evidently have insane wait times and it's basically impossible to see someone on a regular basis, let alone the same person. And all of this with "good" insurance.
kaiser therapy is not very good.