Anti-Oppressive
RATE STRUCTURE
We intentionally work as mentors, outside of the colonized and limiting space of clinical therapy and insurance-based treatment, which requires focus on individual pathology and diagnostics versus systemic harm and revolution. With this choice, we allow ourselves the freedom to support in whatever way we feel is useful to our clients.
However, we acknowledge private pay sucks, too.
We believe that helpers should also live safe and abundant lives, and reject the narrative that support givers should not require ample payment because they are “not in it for the money.” This is an oppressive language that reserves health and comfort for those willing to…not help. That’s totally backwards to us and we aren’t having it—the healers should feel health.
But we don’t want to just help rich people.
Thus, we are left in a complicated place. Our presented rates are exactly what we want to be paid. And, we have some policies in place to ensure that we don’t limit access.
Let’s be real, all these degrees left us with serious student loans!
This is what we’ve come up with (so far)….
Option 1: We can accept most Health Savings Accounts in the United States, which many people have access to through their employer-provided or Marketplace purchased insurance policy. This is pre-tax money and may be just sitting there if you forgot you had one of these. Check.
Option 2: We can accept CareCredit, which allows for 6 month interest free payment plans. This spreads payments out considerably and may be a way for you to build your credit history in a positive way, if that’s something of value to you.
Option 3: We can create customized payment plans without the middleman of CareCredit and execute them without interest (we aren’t going to charge you a higher rate for this, we are just going to turn on an autopay type thing). We prefer you complete payment at the same time you complete work with us, but we can schedule in such a way that everything lines up well and you can pay at your preferred speed.
Option 4: We can discuss our anti-oppressive, reparations based rate structure, where we may offer sliding scale services. You qualify if you have exhausted other options and are a member of a historically & systemically oppressed group of people.
How do you know if you are one of these people? Look, that’s not really for us to decide, but let’s just say if you are a white, cis person with a college degree, you own a home, and/or you feel excited to spend money on vacation every year but not on private pay health services because you’d rather bill your insurance, you probably aren’t. We aren’t judging, you get to spend your money however feels right to you! But our intention here is to spread money around and contribute to reparations for historical atrocities, while at the same time paying our experts well so that they can also afford health, safety and wellness.
Please note: Our ideal price, which is listed publicly, builds in room for us to execute #4.
The more people opt into full rates, the more #4 we can pull off.
So please, accurately self-report.
If it is hard to stomach paying full rates, even on a payment plan, but won’t compromise your safety and, in fact, will make you a lot more money in the long run (which is the point of an investment, even when it feels stretchy, and we at Rêv want all the good guys to have more money in this capitalist hell-scape, not less), don’t ask for a reduced rate. Instead, plan ahead, try options 1-3, or contact us to brainstorm how to thoughtfully get this done.
Please leave space for us to redistribute wealth to those who truly cannot access us without the help.