Why I'm willing to spend $450 a month on couples therapy - Business Insider

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'Eliminating a tool that helps ease communication with my partner during a moment when we're forced to spend every waking — and sleeping! — moment together? That feels like a risk I'm not willing to take.'

My boyfriend and I first began meeting with our couples therapist in January 2020. I found her through the "Find A Therapist" function on, searching for someone walkable from our apartment who also worked on a sliding scale.

The fit was a good one, but unfortunately, all her sliding-scale slots were full, so a 50-minute session was going to run us $225. To make that number fit into our budget, we decided to meet every other week, and to put our name on the waitlist in the meantime.Then, just days after our first meeting, my boyfriend was laid off from his job. We briefly considered bailing on therapy, but we had such a great experience in our first session that we decided to make it work.

for our sessions. But with so much changing around us, and confined to a one-bedroom apartment without a car, it's been a relief to have one constant. That hour every two weeks with someone we know and trust is worth its weight in gold, frankly, so I'm holding onto it with both hands. By canceling ourand cutting our grocery budget to $200 per week , we've been able to scrape up the money to continue our therapy sessions uninterrupted.

Going forward, I'm hopeful that we won't have to make further cuts. I've started to hear from some of my old writing clients again, which makes me optimistic that my income might be bouncing back. But even if I'm wrong, couples therapy will be one of the last things to be cut from our budget. It's a

 

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