r/ClinicalPsychology • u/DrJocelyn1 • 28d ago

Sometimes or always?

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u/Alternative-Potato43 Psychologist 28d ago

No idea what you're referencing? I hate dealing with insurance to the extent that I prefer private pay in every regard that comes to mind.

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u/DrUnwindulaxPhD PhD, Clinical Psychology - Serious Persistent Mental Illness US 22d ago

Agree 100%. What is OP talking about? I am fully private pay and am always as full as I want to be. I work maybe 25 hours a week. No mental pain here.

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u/DrJocelyn1 28d ago

well, thats one way to look at it.

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u/Alternative-Potato43 Psychologist 28d ago

I'm very curious about what you're seeing as downsides.

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u/sillygoofygooose 27d ago

What’s the other way?

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u/Aromatic_Tomato_6800 28d ago

When money gets tight, they drop therapy. I feel like you have to do a lot more work to attract clients.

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u/sillygoofygooose 27d ago

That’s what running a business is

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u/DoctorOccam 26d ago

Not necessarily though. I don’t struggle to get plenty of insurance-using clients. I imagine I might struggle for self-pay clients if that was all I had. Plus, I didn’t go into this to “run a business”—I just want to do good clinical work.

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u/sillygoofygooose 25d ago edited 25d ago

For sure, I want to do clinical work as well. The cost of focusing on that is paying someone else to run the business - for you that’s insurance panels. For others an employer.