At Supporting Wellness, EMDR therapy costs $235 for a standard 50-minute session. It is billed like any other therapy session, and most extended health plans cover it as psychological services when the clinician's designation is eligible, because insurers pay for the clinician, not the technique.
Our EMDR sessions are the standard 50 minutes, and the fee is the same at our Calgary and Cold Lake clinics. Across Calgary, fees vary mostly with the clinician's designation and the length of the session.
Session length is worth comparing. Some clinicians elsewhere book longer sessions for the reprocessing phase, and longer sessions cost more. Ask how long the sessions are when you compare prices.
EMDR follows eight phases, and the first sessions are history-taking and preparation rather than reprocessing. After that, it depends on what you are working on. A single event in adulthood, such as a collision, often takes fewer sessions. Repeated or childhood trauma usually takes longer.
As a rough guide to the arithmetic, six sessions come to $1,410 before insurance, and twelve come to $2,820. Your clinician can give you a realistic estimate after the first session or two. Our article on your first EMDR session explains the early phases.
Usually, in part. A plan that pays 80 percent up to $1,000 a year would cover $188 of a $235 session, leaving you $47, until the $1,000 runs out after about five sessions. Your own plan will differ, so check three things:
The third point matters. At Supporting Wellness, EMDR is currently offered by registered provisional psychologists, so check that your plan covers that designation. Tell us which plan you have and we can check for you.
No. You can book EMDR privately without a referral. Some insurance plans ask for a doctor's referral before they reimburse, so check yours before the first session.
Our Calgary clinic is at 8989 Macleod Trail SW, Suite 408, open Monday to Saturday from 9am to 8pm. Read more about EMDR therapy in Calgary and EMDR therapy in Cold Lake, call 1-888-622-8350, or book online. No referral is needed.
We direct bill many insurers, including Alberta Blue Cross, Canada Life, Sun Life, Manulife, Greenshield and Desjardins, so you pay only what your plan does not cover. See direct billing and insurance.
