Training institutes have low fee referral services or clinics where therapists are receiving additional training in a specific treatment approach. Most therapists accept insurance. Most insurance covers only part payment of therapy fees. Many therapists will ask you to pay first and submit bills for reimbursement by your insurance company. Kinds of therapy approaches Short-term or brief approaches emphasize a narrow focus on a specific problem or issue.
Treatment is limited to from ten sessions to six months.
Cognitive therapy uses techniques designed to alter the way you think about yourself and your situation in order to make your thinking more adaptive. Underlying emotional issues which are left over from childhood relationships with parents are reworked in the relationship with the therapist. More than one meeting per week is often needed. Humanistic approaches emphasize the real relationship between the therapist and client and tend to use feedback to clarify the client's thoughts and emotions. Feminist approaches emphasize the social causes of difficulties experienced as a result of gender roles and uses techniques aimed at empowering the client to be free to gender role demands.