Cost & Availability

If you would like to work together, please read through this page to check my availability matches your needs, and to establish where you sit on my sliding scale.

Current Availability

• I am currently operating a short waiting list. I am taking on clients falling into bands A, B and C on my fee sliding scale- please see below for a more detailed explanation.

• Once you have familiarised yourself with the sliding scale, please follow the steps on the ‘Starting Therapy’ page, which are to fill in a form with further details and book your initial consultation or ‘taster session’

• You can find out when clients currently starting therapy joined the waiting list here

• Feel free to email me with any questions at cj@rainorshinetherapy.co.uk.

Sliding Scale Information

I charge a sliding scale of £25-£65/ hour depending on financial capacity. This allows me to offer accessible therapy whilst also ensuring the sustainability of my practice and appropriately valuing the time and effort I dedicate to sessions.

Based on principles of economic justice, the fee clients pay is proportionate to what they have available to give. Those with more financial capacity support those with less capacity to access therapy. My sliding scale is based on the ‘Green Bottle’ sliding scale (see below for further information).

Please Bear in Mind…

• I work on a basis of trust and do not ask for proof of income. However, as this sliding scale is offered in a spirit of generosity, my request is that clients use it honestly. There is an allocated number of slots available for each band

• There is routinely more demand for lower slots than higher. Whilst I encourage anyone who needs a lower price slot to take it, if you take up a slot at a lower rate that slot will not then be available to someone else who may not be able to afford therapy without it

• Once you start therapy you will be committed to paying for it on a regular basis. If the therapy I offer is beyond your budget, I would be happy to talk through with you organisations and other therapists which may offer more affordable alternatives.

• Organisations pay a set fee of Band B.

• If a third party, such as a parent, is paying for therapy, the rate is based on the third party’s financial capacity.

Sliding Scale

Please read through the ‘Sliding Scale’ section below and decide a band that best matches your circumstances. You do not need to agree with every statement. Differences between the bands are in bold.

Standard Rates

A: £65 High:

• I am comfortably able to meet my needs all the time.

• I am employed and/or have a regular income.

• I have access to ample financial savings or assets.

• I have an ample disposable income

B: £55 Average (Organisational Set Rate):

• I am comfortably able to meet my basic needs the majority of the time.

• I am employed and/or have a regular income.

• I have access to some financial savings

• I have a moderate expendable income

C: £45 Low:

• I may stress about meeting my basic needs but still regularly achieve them.

• I have a regular income.

• I don't have any savings

• I rarely have an expendable income

Financial Hardship Rates (not currently offered)

I reserve a limited number of slots for people who are experiencing financial hardship. These are offered as £25 ‘solidarity slots’ to people with two marginalised identities (BIPOC/gender diverse/ disabled) or ‘concessionary slots’ to full time students and those on means tested benefits.

Please note I am not currently offering these rates as my quota for them is full. The best way to check their ongoing availability is to revisit this webpage.

Solidarity Slots: £25

• I experience financial hardship. This could look like

  • I often stress about meeting my basic needs and don't always achieve them

  • I am unemployed or underemployed or on a low wage

  • I qualify for benefits (UK)

  • I have no financial savings or expendable income

  AND

  I identify with two/ three of the following categories

• trans, non-binary, gender diverse and/or

• disabled and/ or

• a person of colour.

I make this offer because people from these groups tend to be more economically disadvantaged.

Concessionary Slots:£35

• I eperience financial hardship (see above definition)

  AND

• I am either a full time student or on means tested benefits.

Fortnightly Slots

I am not currently offering fortnightly slots.

Acknowledgments

Thanks and credit to Alexis Cunningfolk for devising the Green Bottle scale and Sage Stephanou for inspiring me to use Cunningfolk’s work through the RTN membership sliding scale; for their labour in further developing the scale in the context of anti-oppressive practice; and for allowing me to use their wording on my page. You can find out more about the concept of the Green Bottle Sliding Scale here.