Money in the Therapy Room — Working with Fees, Financial Countertransference and the Unspoken Power of Money
Money is already present in therapy. It appears in your fees, cancellation policy, concessions and payment conversations, and it can surface through a client's shame, financial distress or assumptions about what therapy should cost. This masterclass gives you a way to work with what is happening beneath the fee, the cancellation, the concession or the silence.
Professional development only — not an accredited CPD or CE activity.
Who this course is for
This is for you if
Fees, boundaries and access
- You set, raise, reduce or hold fees and want to make those decisions with greater confidence, consistency and clinical clarity.
- Money conversations, concessions, cancellations or unpaid sessions create discomfort — and you want to respond thoughtfully rather than react from guilt, fear or habit.
- You want to distinguish compassionate flexibility from boundary erosion, so you can support access without quietly undermining the sustainability of your practice.
- You want practical language for discussing fees, affordability and money difficulties in ways that are clear, relational and non-shaming.
- You want financial boundaries that protect both the therapeutic frame and the relationship — without becoming rigid, punitive or emotionally distant.
Power, class and the therapeutic relationship
- You want to recognise financial countertransference before it starts shaping the therapeutic relationship — including rescue, avoidance, guilt, over-accommodation, frustration or resentment.
- You want to understand how class, privilege, scarcity and financial power can influence what you notice, assume, avoid or interpret in the therapy room.
- You notice shame, debt, wealth, spending or financial distress entering the work and want to engage with it without moralising, rescuing or reinforcing financial shame.
Your own money history and clinical training
- You want greater awareness of how your own money history, beliefs and embodied responses may enter clinical decision-making.
- You were trained to work with transference, boundaries and power — but not with the financial dynamics already present in almost every therapeutic relationship.
Not for you if
- —You are looking for financial advice, budgeting, debt counselling or practice-marketing tactics.
- —You want a quick checklist rather than a reflective, clinical exploration of money in the room.
What you'll be able to do
Recognise financial countertransference
Notice rescue, avoidance, guilt, over-accommodation, frustration or resentment before they shape the therapeutic relationship.
Set and hold fees with clinical clarity
Make decisions about raising, reducing or holding fees with confidence, consistency and a clear clinical rationale.
Work with class, privilege and financial power
See how scarcity, wealth and financial dynamics influence what you notice, assume, avoid or interpret in the room.
Respond to concessions, cancellations and unpaid sessions
Move from reactive guilt or fear to thoughtful, consistent responses that protect the therapeutic frame.
Distinguish flexibility from boundary erosion
Support client access without quietly undermining the sustainability of your practice.
Bring money into the conversation
Use clear, relational, non-shaming language for fees, affordability and financial distress so money becomes part of the therapy.
Money is already in the room
Every therapeutic relationship has a financial frame. The fee, the concession, the cancellation policy and the moment a client hesitates before paying are all part of the relationship, whether or not they are ever named.
Most clinical training says almost nothing about this. Practitioners are left to work it out privately, often through discomfort, guilt or avoidance — and clients feel that.
What this masterclass helps you do
- Name what is happening beneath the fee, the cancellation, the concession or the silence
- Bring greater clarity to your financial boundaries
- Bring deeper awareness to the financial dynamics of your clinical relationships
- Feel more confident in the money conversations that are already happening
What you get
Every enrolment includes lifetime access to the full course library, practical tools you can use in client meetings, and a Statement of Completion.
- 75-minute on-demand masterclass, watch any time
- Statement of Completion
- Reflective prompts on your own money history and financial countertransference
- Practical language for fee, concession and cancellation conversations
- Lifetime access to the recording and materials
Get all three masterclasses — AU$257
- Money in the Therapy Room — included, you're on this page
- When Money Becomes Control
- The Hidden Shame of Money
Questions about this course
- Who is this masterclass for?
- Psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, somatic practitioners and other mental health professionals — anywhere in the world. It is not designed for financial advisers or financial counsellors.
- How long is it and when can I watch?
- It is a 75-minute on-demand masterclass. You watch at your own pace, in one sitting or across several, with lifetime access.
- Does it carry CPD or CE credit?
- No. You receive a Statement of Completion, which many practitioners record as self-directed professional development.
- Is this financial advice training?
- No. It is a clinical masterclass about how money operates in the therapeutic relationship — fees, boundaries, power and countertransference — not about giving clients financial advice.
- How much is it?
- Currently on Sale — AU$97.
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Money in the Therapy Room
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