The What + The Why of Sliding Scale Care
I offer all of my 1:1 sessions and workshops on a sliding scale.
I feel deeply invested in doing so; it feels like the only liberatory way to offer care, especially because oppression and violence shape who has access to wealth.
If you’d like to support this my work with clients on this scale, you can make a donation to my Pay it Forward.
As the Healing Industrial Complex* looms bigger and bigger, part of the reason I offer sliding scale is in deep reverence to all of the practitioners who have offered me sliding scale and low cost and sometimes free care. From acupuncture to writing workshops to somatic therapy to psychedelic integration and therapeutic work to sound healing to herbs to medicine work to massage and more, literally, almost every practitioner I have personally worked with has made sure their work was accessible to me and others. It’s a huge gift and this work has a long history and i’m grateful to practitioners who know that financially accessible care is liberatory, revolutionary and quite often, leads to the people seeking care having more capacity to offer care to others. It helps remake the world, for sure.
Suggested Rates
Suggested 1:1 Rate According to Income
I’m also very clear that systemic oppression shapes access— if you hold an identity(ies) impacted by systemic oppression, please choose what feels right for you. I believe in and trust the model of a sliding scale and believe and trust in all of you who join.
Workshop Sliding Scale Codes
The workshops are listed full price at $40-$50* with 3 sliding scale tiers (to reduce registration to $10-50, depending on your needs).
*90 minute and 120 minute workshops are priced slightly differently as one is longer than the other. You will see when you go to register. Please note there are 10 available spots for $10. Please be mindful so that those who need this tier can access it.
If you have recently lost your job and/ or are experiencing financial insecurity, please do choose the lower end of the scale.
If you are employed and/ or are meeting your basic financial needs, please choose somewhere in the middle two tiers.
If you have financial abundance and security, personal or generational wealth, and/or want to support my sliding scale practice, please choose the top end of the scale.
Credit Where Credit is Due
I offer a scale that is informed by income but Alexis J. Cunningfolk of Worts & Cunning Apothecary developed this helpful image to unpack what what financial privilege and access looks like. (And do take a read of the longer piece called The Sliding Scale: A Tool for Economic Justice.) Thank you Alexis for your powerful work around this!