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When mental health professionals struggle to afford their own therapy as a couple

My spouse and I both work in therapy-adjacent fields and we're constantly debating whether we can afford couples therapy for ourselves when we're already spending so much on individual therapy, and the irony that we help other people with this stuff but can't figure out our own situation is making us both crazy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Professional expertise in psychological wellbeing creates additional pressure and irony when personal financial constraints prevent accessing the very services they provide to others.

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