FREMONT COMMUNITY THERAPY PROJECT

Office policies

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Appointments and Fees

Psychotherapy appointments are usually 45-50 minutes in length, except for intake appointments, which will last two hours. Our standard fee is $45 for a 45-50 minute session of psychotherapy. We request that you come prepared to pay your fee by cash or check made out to FCTP at each session unless you have made another arrangement in advance with your therapist.

In some cases lower fees can be made available after discussion with a staff member at the time of intake. However all of our staff and supervisors volunteer their time to FCTP and we rely solely on client fees in order to meet our operating expenses. If you become able to pay more, or need to pay less, than you have arranged with your therapist, please discuss this with her or him at the next opportunity.

Some FCTP staff are able to bill for services to Medicare. We cannot bill to any Medicare Advantage Plan, however. We are not providers for Apple Health (Medic aid) and we are out of network to all other health insurances. If you will need an invoice to submit to insurance please notify your therapist at the time of your intake appointment.

Psychological evaluations for all purposes excepting parenting-related evaluations and diagnostic evaluations for Aspergers, including interviews, testing, and report writing, have a base cost of $600. Because of the lengthier process of completing them, parenting-related evaluations cost $1000, and diagnostic evaluations for Aspergers cost $800. If your evaluator believes that your assessment process may be unusually long or complex, she or he will discuss with you any need for a slight increase in that base fee. We accept all major credit cards as payment for assessments.

We require you to give us 24 hours notice of cancellation if you cannot attend your session; our voicemail will time and date stamp your cancellation call. We will ask you to pay for a session that you cancel with less than 24 hours notice, or for which you fail to appear. Psychotherapy clients who no-show twice in a row without timely cancellation may not have further appointments made.

Because this is a training clinic, your therapist will make an audio recording of each session so that she or he can receive supervision. Recordings are usually destroyed after review by your therapist and the supervisor. We do not make exceptions to this policy about recording sessions.

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Office Policy and Consent to Treatment