Therapists take note: someone reckons psychology fees are up a third since 2022

A 2022 guide to UK private therapy costs claims psychology sessions have gone up by about a third since then, though it never quite says who worked that out. This includes practices like yours, if you're the sort that prefers your numbers with a source attached.

Page updated: 13 Aug 2026

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Therapy practices thinking about a fee rise might take comfort from this figure, but a number with no named survey behind it is not the same thing as market evidence.

Original Research	A claim that private psychology session fees rose by roughly a third between 2022 and 2025
Source	https://findcarecompare.com/guides/mental-health/how-much-does-private-therapy-cost-uk
Overview	The page is a consumer guide to UK private therapy costs, published by comparison site Find Care Compare, built around a pricing claim with no named study or report behind it.
Year	2022
Publisher	Brand, Find Care Compare
Relevance to Wellbeing	The figure specifically concerns clinical psychologists rather than counsellors or psychotherapists generally, and offers a tempting but unverified pricing benchmark for anyone in talking therapies.
Our Verdict	Too early to tell the stat isn't sourced anywhere on the page, so treat it as a rumour with good production values.
Our Summary	The general story, that specialist psychology fees are climbing, matches what most therapists already suspect from their own client conversations. Gives you a talking point when discussing fee increases, provided you don't dress it up as fact. No named survey, sample size, or methodology anywhere. Not disclosed usually means not there. The page is dated 2022 but claims to track a rise running through to 2025, which is a neat trick for a page that hasn't been updated.
Our Geo View	Specific to the UK private therapy market. Fee levels and comparisons don't transfer to other countries' healthcare or insurance systems.

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Recognise how this might impact your practice

Why this might matter to you

Coaching: this matters because if therapy prices are rising by rumour, coaches doing similar inner-work sessions may find clients arrive already primed with the number.
Therapy: this matters because clients may quote this figure back at you when discussing fees, so it's worth knowing where it actually came from before you nod along.
Training: this matters because course and workshop pricing often shadows therapy pricing, and a shaky number has a habit of becoming received wisdom.
Alternative Healing: this matters because clients comparing healing sessions to psychology sessions will bring this figure up, sourced or not.
Clinical: this matters because clinical psychologists are the actual subject of the claim, making them most likely to be quoted the figure by a client who found it on a comparison site.
Retreat/Centre: this matters because retreat pricing sometimes gets benchmarked against therapy costs too, and nobody tends to check the footnotes.

Where this came from

A guide page on the cost of private therapy in the UK, featuring a pricing claim with no named source attached to it.

Find Care Compare, 2022. The figure sits on the guide page itself, with no separate report or survey identified anywhere near it.

Credibility flags: no methodology disclosed, sample size not disclosed, publisher is a commercial comparison site rather than a research body.

How we scored this

A relevance score out of 100, built from three things: how well it fits the six practice types, how recent it is, and how solid the methodology behind it is.

43%

Practice fit, 100How new, 10How solid, 0

Marked down heavily on how solid the method is, since there isn't one on display, and it scrapes by on practice fit only because it happens to concern therapy pricing directly; recency also takes a hit given the page predates the very years the claim covers.

It's worth considering changes to your marketing practices

What this means for your marketing

Don't quote the 34% figure as fact. If you use it at all, call it "an industry estimate" and leave it there.
Put your own fee history somewhere visible on your site, so people compare you to you rather than to a mystery statistic.
Brief your team not to repeat the number without the caveat attached.
Say plainly on your pricing page why your rates are what they are, in case an enquiry arrives already quoting a figure you've never seen sourced either.
Ask new enquiries where their price expectations came from. It tells you what you're actually up against.

Who this is most useful for

Practice type	Relevance	Recommended action
Coaching	Low	Mention only if a client raises it, don't build pricing strategy around it
Therapy	High	Use cautiously as a talking point, verify before quoting
Training	Low	Note for context only
Alternative Healing	Medium	Useful for comparative pricing conversations, with caveats attached
Clinical	High	Most directly implicated, worth having a considered response ready
Retreat/Centre	Low	Background awareness only

Best before

Best before: revisit if a named source ever turns up behind this figure; until then, consider it already expired. Find Care Compare