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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really? Why is the pay so low?? Even in private practice? [/quote]

Because there is a lot of overhead in private practice; because it takes time to find a solid client base; because the DC market is oversaturated; because student loans; because crappy insurance reimbursement for psychotherapy; because no benefits for private practice; because you can't keep adding patients to make more money: at some point, you burn out and you lose the ability to practice competently.

Many others, I'm sure, but those are off the top of my head.[/quote] Yes and I concur with specializing. We recently looked for a therapist for a specific issue- so many general practitioners but very few who focused on what we were looking for and almost none of them took insurance and session rates of $200/hr were above what we could pay. Are you tied to the area? Therapists in other parts of the country make decent income and the cost of living is much lower. A friend used to work in Atlanta as a LCSW therapist and worked part time at a government facility then had her own private practice and made 70k between the two. In Atlanta that was a really good salary.[/quote]

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