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- Association for Transpersonal Psychology: This listing might offer suggestions of programs near your area that you can call and ask for a listing of qualified therapists who have lower-cost programs.
- C.G. Jung Institutes: Each listing in each city has low-cost therapy programs in the Carl Jung style. Contact them and ask for low-cost therapy program information.
- Connecticut Department of Social Services: "The department provides medical assistance to low income persons and people who could otherwise support themselves if not for the fact that they have excessive health care costs."
- DisabilityResources.org: "The world's foremost gateway to disability resources on the Internet, featuring thousands of the best web site conveniently arranged by subject or state."
- Grandcaring Connection Resource Guide: Medical benefits and financial assistance service for Seniors.
- GSS: Trusts and Care Management For The Disabled: "GSS is an agency which provides personal and financial services to a wide variety of people. We act as guardian, trustee, or attorney-in-fact... Unlike many organizations that provide fiduciary services, GSS specializes in assisting people with physical, mental and emotional disabilities."
- Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA): HCFA provides health insurance for over 74 million Americans through Medicare, Medicaid and Child Health. The majority of these individuals receive their benefits through the fee-for-service delivery system, however, an increasing number are choosing managed care plans."
- Information and Referral Services: Arizona: Listing of services.
- Links to Gestalt Psychotherapy Associations and Institutes (and other institutes offering Gestalt therapy training): "Megalist of Gestalt therapy associations, institutes, journals, discussions groups." Many of these Gestalt Training Institutes offer low-cost therapy from their trainees, who are almost always already licensed therapists.
- Medicaid: "Medicaid is a jointly-funded, Federal-State health insurance program for certain low-income and needy people. It covers approximately 36 million individuals including children, the aged, blind, and/or disabled, and people who are eligible to receive federally assisted income maintenance payments."
- Medicaid: State by State Descriptions & Plans: Selected links to information about existing Medicaid plans and reform proposals within individual states. It is hoped they will be of general use: 1) to residents seeking basic information about their individual state, 2) to those interested in comparing activities in one state to another.
- Minnesota Department of Human Services: "General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC)."
- The National Child Benefit: Canada: Provinces/territories have agreed to the design of a National Reinvestment Framework - a commitment to reallocating available social assistance funds into benefits and services for children in low-income families."
- NHeLP: National Health Law Program: "30 Years of Working for Justice in Health Care for Low Income People."
- Student Counseling Centers on the Internet: A Directory for Counseling Center Professionals: (Not just for students.) "This ever-expanding directory contains information on different internet resources set up by counseling centers, and how to access them directly from your own computer account. The sharing of resources such as those listed in this directory can be invaluable -- we can combine our efforts to provide much more effective services to students (and others) than if we each work separately."
Low-Cost Counseling Search Suggestions for Your Local Area:
If you did not find what you need above, you might want to try the following suggestions to find possible could be well worth it for financial assistance benefits. Keep calling - the next call you make might have the answer you need!
- Local Counselor Training Programs: Call the Psychology Departments of near-by colleges/universities and ask if their department and counseling departments have a low-cost counseling plan for the public.
- Look in your yellow pages under: "Psychotherapy, Psychology, Counselors, Therapists, Mental Health Centers, Social Services, Department of Human Services, or Physicians-Psychiatry" to see if there are institutes that might offer low-cost counseling. The best thing to do is just call each of the listings in your phone book and ask if they know of low-cost counseling. Sometimes some offices will give you a lead that could not be found otherwise.
- Hospitals: Call your local hospital's psychology department and ask if they have low-cost counseling plans or know of any.
- Departments of Human Resources: Look under your "county" name, for instance: Richardson County - Department of Human Resources or Social Services Resources or Family/Children Assistance. I decided to try this out for you, and in my area this department directed me to a local organization called, "First Call for Help." Your area might have a similar service by another name.
- State Departments of Victim Assistance: Some areas have this and some do not. Try asking the above resources if they know of such an assistance program in your area. In California, for instance, this service has counseling funding for qualified recipients, pending some requirements.
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