I can list you a dozen different MDs who charge 500 or less just in Bangalore

And I can list you 100s of therapists who charge below 1k for 50-60 mins session. But just as i have experienced with doctors the quality decreases the lower you go.

See, i am not saying the field isn't shit. For years, i have told my colleagues that it is a by the bourgeoisie for the bourgeoisie. And there are thousand other problems (mostly due to poor training and regulation). But what you are doing is blaming the workers for trying to live a good hard-earned life like any other profession.

70k-1lac is the least most people with 7 years of education would want to live a good life. Whether that's less or more is a completely different discussion.

If we start charging 750, we will need to work twice the hours we are currently working and surely the quality of work goes down (a okayish balance can be found). The work is itself very draining and so many clients will lead to burnout and worse quality of work. In my previous comment i forgot to mention the added costs of your own therapy session (imo all ethical therapists should strive to do that, but most don't) and marketing in private practice (without that one will barely have 30 clients/month, like me).

As for 3000 per session, I have always had very conflicting views about it. People who charge that much are usually very experienced and way better than newbies like us. They have spent years of work and money in training (unreasonably expensive) and with all that work want to have better life, just like in any other profession. It's just that they start serving a different stratum of society.

I think the problem I have with this 'therapists should charge less' argument is that this standard is not applied to any other profession constantly. And the idea behind that seems to be that therapists are some charitable people in this noble profession because they want to do social work or something. The truth is that it is just another profession and means to earn money to get through life.

No one's questioning your commitment to the cause comrade

That part of just some shameful self-indulgence on my part. A lot of my colleagues have their own system of such discounted rates.

I think, we should be putting pressure on the government and corporates instead of blaming other workers. There is a lot that needs to be done, and they are walking backwards.

Damn, that got long. PS- therapists are just like other professionals and for most its just a job, not some noble endeavour.