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Down Economy = Therapy Boom?

Posted on August 27, 2008

The Star Tribune brings us a piece earlier this week on the boom in psychotherapy practices, ostensibly because of the down economy: Schoener is, again, seeing more of those things. We re busier than ever, and we haven t had any recent publicity or visibility, said Schoener, executive director of the Walk-In Counseling Center in Minneapolis. It s quite striking. He estimates that the number of clients is 20 percent higher than just three years ago. Calls are coming from stressed-out couples who can t stop fighting, from people worried about losing their jobs, from par...

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