What Does Self-Healing Through Written Cognitive Psychotherapy (WCP) Cost?

Mental Health Is a Personal Achievement

"Mental health is not a service rendered by the healthcare system — it is the achievement of the person who thinks for himself, performed on himself."¹ So wrote Dietmar Luchmann on August 14, 2025, in an article on Switzerland as a paradise of psychotherapeutic inefficiency.¹ On September 1, 2025, the Association of Swiss Psychotherapists (ASP)² responded by exposing its business model: its members are "bothered"³ by the prospect that "anxiety disorders can be healed in as little as eight to ten hours."³ Take a moment to think this fact through to its conclusion: psychotherapists are bothered when their clients get well.

A reader commented on the article¹ on Switzerland as a paradise of psychotherapeutic inefficiency: "Fantastic article! For over twenty years I had been in therapy, and in the end I was sicker than at the start. Always new tentative diagnoses, pathologized personality traits, 'deficits' here and 'traumas' there. You are conditioned, quite literally, into a victim full of incapacity. What set me free was redirecting my focus from the problematic to the functional. […] I feel like an ex-cult member."

So when you ask what psychotherapy costs, do not ask first about money but about the value of mental health⁴ and your lifetime. And ask which you would rather have: a cognitive instructor who shows you how to become, in a few hours, the best therapist for yourself — or a state-licensed prattler paid by your health insurance who exploits you for twenty years with structureless conversations: "empathic, friendly, therapeutically ornamented. But substantively empty."¹

The good news: even if you have allowed yourself to be exploited psychotherapeutically for twenty years, you can still arrive — after "eight therapy hours" — at a "thoroughly worthwhile life," as one physician affected himself described after his ten-year ordeal with psychotherapists and psychotherapy. Only his self-healing, following the instruction provided by Dietmar Luchmann's cognitive psychotherapy, ended the exploitation.⁵

What Costs You Nothing

Before any fee becomes due, we examine together with you whether our service is even suitable for you — at no cost. The suitability test on our registration page and the initial assessment of your problem description on registration cost you nothing. You pay only once you have made an informed decision to work with us.

What You Pay

The WCP consists of two clearly delineated phases:

First phase — psychodiagnostic and probationary assessment. In two hours we examine whether your self-diagnosis withstands reality and whether the WCP is the right path for you. Flat fee: USD 520. If a different course of treatment is indicated, we tell you so honestly — before you have paid for a single hour of psychotherapy.

Second phase — communication in rounds. Each working hour (60 minutes) costs USD 260. The guideline of the British National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) prescribes "7 to 14 hours in total" for the cognitive treatment of anxiety disorders — without psychotropic medication.⁶

From these figures, the total cost range of a WCP can be calculated transparently:

• Seven therapy hours: USD 520 + 7 × USD 260 = USD 2,340.
• Fourteen therapy hours: USD 520 + 14 × USD 260 = USD 4,160.

For an effective psychotherapy without psychotropic medication this is inexpensive — less than the average cost of an annual vacation, with a documented return of 400 percent^7,8. No one with us has ever failed at these financial costs who was determined to free himself, with our help, from his anxiety disorder or depression.

What You Don't Pay For — and Don't Have to Endure

The financial costs of our WCP can be calculated transparently. About the hidden costs of insurance-funded psychotherapy nothing is said — which does not mean they do not exist.

With us, you do not pay for the years-long management of your problems, as the cognitive warfare of the ASP⁹ reveals as its business model. With us, you pay to acquire the capacity to solve your problems yourself, permanently. "His maxim is: efficient treatments, limited on average to ten hours — rather than years-long therapies in which the therapists exploit their clients."¹⁰ So the Tagesspiegel documented on August 20, 2004,¹⁰ the cognitive working method of the psychotherapist Dietmar Luchmann.

With us, you do not pay for psychotropic medications that chemically sedate you instead of enabling you to think for yourself.

With us, you do not pay with your data; instead, you enjoy a maximum data-security guarantee. Because Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC, works exclusively with self-payers outside the healthcare system, the compulsory transmission of your client data to health insurers, insurance companies, and government authorities does not occur. Only the psychotherapist who attends to you knows your identity.

With us, you do not pay with the risks of opaque conditions imposed by a sick system whose aim is "the conversion of all healthy people into the sick".¹¹ Our Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) regulate openly what is regularly concealed in the insurance system: confidentiality, data flows, obligations to cooperate, liability, fees. Some prospective clients experience this transparency as threatening because they are not accustomed to having the conditions of a treatment laid out precisely on the table before treatment begins. We understand this. We do not, however, change it. The T&Cs are our self-protection; they preserve our freedom to work exclusively with people we can in fact lead to success. In the insurance system you have, as a client, the same or more far-reaching obligations — but nobody tells you so. What looks threatening is in truth its opposite: the assurance that you know what you are getting into.

The True Exclusivity

Which brings us to the decisive question: why do we select our clients at all?

The answer is banal and honest. Every psychotherapist at Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC, is so experienced and financially independent that he practices the WCP because he takes pleasure in the work. Pleasure in this work, however, arises from one thing alone: therapeutic success achieved in efficient time with highly motivated people. From this it follows necessarily that we admit only those who wish to heal themselves — with our guidance, yet through their own thinking, reading, and writing.

Ninety-nine percent of all prospective clients fail already at our registration page because they shrink from the modest exertion of thinking required to write down their "problems as the result of a misdirected learning history" in usable form, with the necessary detail and scope. They are looking for a practitioner who removes the problem while they themselves passively - as at the dentist - hold their mouths open. They will not find this practitioner with us.

For "psychotherapists do not heal," Dietmar Luchmann explained. "They have never healed. Not a single psychologically suffering human being on this earth has ever been healed by a psychotherapist. These people have all without exception healed themselves — by changing their thinking and consequently feeling and acting differently. The psychotherapist was at best the signpost and instructor who showed them how it is done."¹²

This is precisely our service: psychological and psychotherapeutic instruction for your self-therapy and self-healing. What this costs, you now know. What your mental health is worth to you⁴, you decide — through your willingness to use our expertise and instruction to heal yourself.

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