Did you know?

Many insurances do not even cover mental health services fully, of those that do, even less cover services for your relationship or your family.

• ​If you struggle with mental health issues, off the top of your head what are the first thoughts you have about it? Usually these thoughts are about the complicated issues we have with the people important to us. So why don’t most traditional insurance policies cover relationship therapy?
• If many of the problems in our world can be resolved by focusing on improving the next generation, why wouldn’t we cover mental health services to teach parents how to be the best parents and best versions of themselves they can be? Why wouldn’t we show people how to model those behaviors for their children?
• Instead we let the cycles continue, generation after generation…

Insurance companies also determine how long you can see your therapist for. Your mental health help is often limited by bureaucracy.

• Did you know that your therapist does not get paid for the additional phone calls they make to your other/old therapists, your Primary Care Doctor, or even for taking you to the ER. None of it counts towards their “Productivity” (which is how most organizations keep their therapists accountable for providing great services for you).
• Did you know that insurance only allows therapists to see clients for no more than 60 minute session, even if there are 6 or more people in the session!
• Did you know that the research done on couple’s and relationship therapy is supposed to be over the course of 75-90 minutes?
• Did you know that EMDR for an individual is most effective in 90 minute sessions! Also, even though it is only an additional 30 minutes it cuts success time by a third! That means you get to feel better WAY faster than insurance allows you to.

Untreated mental health issues cost the global economy $1 TRILLION a year! But why?

• Did you know that the 2 most common mental health problems can cause people to have an inability to get out of bed, or leave their house?
• Did you know that most mental health disorders affects a person’s ability to focus.

• ​This impacts their functioning at work. They will not be as productive, which hurts their workplace and our economy.

• People who have been in abusive relationships, or who have been abused in the past are more likely to have mental health issues. 

• This leads to higher unemployment rates.

• Higher rates of homelessness

• High rates of child poverty

• ​Higher drop-out rates

• ​This starts the cycle over again with higher rates of unemployment
• Higher rates of teen pregnancy
• Higher rates of use of substances
  
• Higher incarceration rates

• Yikes! No wonder mental health services are so important!