The Saturday Center for Psychotherapy offers high-quality, affordable psychotherapy in a private practice setting on the West Side of Los Angeles.
We also offer a unique training experience in intersubjective psychotherapy for advanced graduate and post-graduate students in psychology
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Services Offered
The Saturday Center provides psychodynamic therapy combining both classical and modern approaches. Through the relationship with the therapist, you will explore your inner life and begin to understand your self, your life, and your relationships. Your therapists will balance listening and intervening, accepting and challenging, and nurturing and fostering autonomy.
As a client, you will find yourself heard at a level most people never experience. You will explore your relationships and yourself in ways that both challenge and exhilarate. Your relationship with your therapist will be unlike any other you have known: safe but challenging, structured with boundaries yet intimate, professional but intensely personal. Through this, you will gain a new relationship to yourself, a self that is more whole, more alive, more self-accepting, and more able to engage in loving, satisfying relationships.
Fees and Payment
The standard fee for therapy at The Saturday Center is $150 per hour. However, we do provide a sliding scale that is based on need and proof of income. We also accept PPO insurance plans.
Initial Intake Process We charge an initial intake fee of $50. If intending on using insurance and/or sliding scale, please provide the therapist with your ID, insurance card , and proof of income.
Services Offered To: Adults
Payment: Sliding Scale Medicare Medicaid
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.