How much does 'Relate' cost?

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Ok, just wanting to have a rough idea if DP agree's to councelling.

Does it depend on your income? Area?

Do you pay per session, or for a 'lump' of sessions?

I know I could ring them and get this info but don't want to get too 'into' it right now

Just wondered if anyone could give me a rough idea?

depends on your income - they don't ask or wage slips or anything - its kinda down to your won integrity

i reckon beteen £35 and 50 would be a good guestimate

£35 and £50 per session?

I just contacted them the other day for us and they have said £45 per session, but if you cannot pay that they talk to you about what you can pay and you fill out a form for them - not sure what that means. I will tell you once I get the courage up to talk to dh about this

Our local one is £45 but they will accept £20 as a minimum if you are really broke. HTH.

Blimmey...that is more than I thought.

If you go on income on paper I guess we would fall into the £40-£50 per session bracket, but in reality, there is no way we can afford that.

I guess £20 would be acheivable but I doubt they'd accept that from us on our income (unless we lied...[hmmm] would that be bad?)

Do you or your dh have a "Employee Assistance" Package at work? - Friends of ours got FREE private relationship counselling through his work. According to dh he has that 'perk' too, should we ever need it. Might be worth exploring.

Would be great to know what that form means spamm, if you don't mind sharing once you've found out

Oh, and it was all totally confidential and his work knew nothing about it. All organised through a third party.

Halster - Not sure about an Employee Assistance Package. I know DP definietly won't have this. I don't think I have but worth me asking! Thanks

How many sessions do the 'average' couple have?

I would have thought that one hour session for us would barely scratch the surface....I guess I was thinking we'd have to go once a week for about 6 months or something!!

(therefore something like £50 odd quid would be way too high of a price to charge?!)

Do couples tend on average to only have 2-3-4 sessions?

we filled in a form.

the form said
"what is your oncome"

gave us soe options

they didn't ask for proof or anything - so like i said - it depends on your own integrity

£1300!!

We wouldn't be swapping holiday money for councelling sessions as there is no holiday money. We have never had any money to be able to have a holiday.

Infact, we have NEVER had that much money in our savings account and each month what does get put into savings & spare cash just gets wiped out in the cost of living anyway.

Guess we need to lie then or just not do it

We paid £20 a session. There were no problems.

Jux - how? What happens? Do they ask you your income first and then give you the fee or did you explain first that you can;t really afford it etc?

Or did you fill in a form and then they calculate that's it's £20 for you?

We did fill in some forms but I can't remember any details as it was getting on for 6 years ago. We explained our circumstances (me disabled, dh musician therefore no fixed income). I think we told them we could afford £20 and they just said OK.

We went for 2 years. We couldn't always pay them, but they let us pay later. They were really helpful.