Individual · Thursday skills group
Anxiety and panic
Practical tools for racing thoughts, sleepless nights and the dread before work, with a clinician who will go at your pace.
Sliding-scale counseling · Ann Arbor
Ask for a first appointment. We'll call you back.
Within two working days, from a private number. Licensed therapists for adults, couples and families, and you pay what your household can manage: from $10 a session, and no one is turned away for lack of money.
- You don't need a diagnosis, a referral or insurance
- Hana from intake calls from a private number, never leaves details on voicemail unless you say so
- Fees from $10 to $95, worked out together on the first call
- Evening appointments until 8 PM, Monday to Thursday
Rather call? (555) 014-3380
Thank you for reaching out. .
Hana or another intake worker will call within two working days, at the time and in the way you asked. If things get harder before then, call or text 988 at any hour.
Who we are
A counseling center that starts with what you can afford
Steady Ground opened in 2009 in two rooms above a bike shop on Packard Street, because a handful of therapists were tired of turning people away over money. We are still on Packard, now on the whole second floor, with nine licensed clinicians and four supervised interns.
Every fee is set by household income and size, using the same table we publish on this site. Around a third of our clients pay $25 or less. Grants and gifts from neighbors cover the difference, so your fee never depends on how good a story you can tell.
What happens after you ask
From first call to first session in about ten days
You can stop at any step. No one will chase you.
Step 1: Ask
Fill in the four-field form above, or call (555) 014-3380. You don't have to explain much.
Step 2: A 20-minute phone call
Hana asks what's going on, what times suit you and what you can pay. Your fee is set on this call.
Step 3: We match you
We pair you with a clinician who fits what you described, and offer two or three times to choose from.
Step 4: Your first session
Fifty minutes, in person on Packard Street or by video. You can switch clinicians at any point, no questions asked.
What we help with
Most people come in about one of these
If what you're carrying isn't listed, ask anyway. We will tell you honestly if someone else would serve you better, and help you get there.
Individual · Tuesday group
Grief and loss
For a death, a divorce, a diagnosis or a life that didn't go the way you planned. Our grief group has met every Tuesday since 2011.
Joint sessions, evenings
Couples and families
Two of our clinicians are licensed marriage and family therapists. Sessions are priced by household, so couples pay one fee, not two.
After school, with a parent's consent
Teens, 13 to 17
Weekday appointments from 3:30 PM so school isn't missed, plus a Saturday circle for the parents of teenagers.
From people who came in
In their words, shared with permission
I'd been putting it off for three years because I assumed I couldn't afford it. My fee is $20.
Hana never once made me feel like a case number. She called back the next morning, like she said she would.
My husband and I paid one fee for the both of us. That's the only reason we went.
The Tuesday group is the one place I don't have to pretend I'm fine.
I switched therapists after two sessions and nobody made it awkward.
When we pick up
Phones and appointments
Leave a message any time and we return it the next working day. The phone line is not a crisis line.
Open nowClosed now
Closes at Opens
todaytomorrowIf it can't wait until we're open, call or text 988 any time, day or night.
| MondayToday | 9:00 AM – 8:00 PMPhones until 7, sessions until 8 |
|---|---|
| TuesdayToday | 9:00 AM – 8:00 PMGrief group 6:30 PM |
| WednesdayToday | 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM |
| ThursdayToday | 9:00 AM – 8:00 PMAnxiety group 5:30 PM |
| FridayToday | 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
| SaturdayToday | 9:30 AM – 12:00 PMGroups only, phones off |
| SundayToday | Closed |
Closures this season
- Thu, Nov 26Thanksgiving Closed Thursday and Friday.
- Dec 24 – Jan 1Winter break Video sessions only. Messages checked daily.
If today is the day you're asking, that's enough.
Four fields, two working days, a fee you can manage. If it can't wait, the help-now page lists who to call tonight.