Deciding on the cost of therapy and supervision is something that I find challenging. When you apply a social justice lens to this work it is difficult to sit with the fact that it is often unaffordable and inaccessible for a lot of people, and often those people are the ones most oppressed and marginalised by society. The various types of rebates that exist often fall short as well. It will never be comfortable to profit from something that should be free, or to profit from needs that would not exist or would be met in community already if this were an ideal world. Given the framework that underpins my work, it is my understanding that most of the time when people come to therapy it is to find support and/or healing from oppression and injustice. To then have to pay for that support and healing seems like an additional injustice. This is especially the case for people with multiple intersections of oppression through race, gender, class, age, (dis)ability and chronic illness, culture, and sexuality. Sadly (and angrily), this is the society we exist in right now, and no person would be able to provide this work completely for free, particularly if we occupy some of those identities ourselves.

All of this is to say however that I offer my services with a set fee while allowing for a sliding scale in acknowledgement of these injustices and to attempt to centre equity in affordability and accessibility. The sliding scale of payment that I use is well below the current market costs for both therapy and supervision. These costs include room rental, insurance, and membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers, in addition to the value of the service provided. When deciding on where you fit in the sliding scale, I understand that sometimes our income is not the same as our disposable cash. And I also ask you to consider your own expenditure on other goods and services; how often you would like to attend therapy or supervision and how sustainable that frequency of cost would be; how much you value this service in your life and for what you are wanting from this. Have a look at the image below for examples of where you might fall on the scale.

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I have a limited number of lower fee and free spots on this sliding scale that are dedicated to people experiencing significant hardship and structural violence. These are offered predominantly to First Nations folks, People of Colour, Asylum Seekers and Refugees, disabled and chronically ill folks, and LGBTQIA+ folks. People who are able to afford the set fee help to make these lower fee and free spots available.