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# My sliding scale
- URL: https://www.chudgar.com/sliding-scale/
- Published: 2023-04-03T18:23:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-09T14:36:37.000Z
- Description: I charge for coaching on a sliding scale, based on Alexis J. Cunningfolk’s “green bottles.” Learn how it works here.
- Author: Ash Chudgar
- Tags: Coaching, Coaching FAQ

### When I decided how to charge for coaching, I had three values in mind: 

1. **Access.** I want to make the powerful form of support I provide accessible to as many people as possible — particularly people who need comfort, healing, and liberation [the most](https://www.chudgar.com/folks-i-love).
2. **Community.** When I value my own work, I’m also valuing the work of [every other partswork practitioner](https://ifs-institute.com/practitioners/all?ref=chudgar.com), so my prices must honor their wisdom and expertise as well as my own.
3. **Culture.** Together with the prices all other healing professionals charge, my prices help our culture value inner healing and liberation in economic terms.
4. **Sustainability.** I want all the different kinds of paid work I do to sustain me economically, so I can meet my financial obligations, contribute fairly to my family economy, and invest in the wellbeing of others too.

### Balancing those values led me to this particular sliding scale.

Developed by [Alexis J. Cunningfolk](https://www.wortsandcunning.com/about?ref=chudgar.com), an intersectional herbalist and witch, this three-tier scale lets my clients choose how much to pay for the work I do. If you’re curious where it comes from, Alexis explains in detail [here](https://www.wortsandcunning.com/blog/sliding-scale?ref=chudgar.com) — but here’s the gist:

- 💰💰💰 The **generosity rate** is for folks who can comfortably pay for their basic needs *and* some luxuries, too. This rate comes closest to what I believe the service I provide is worth. (You might wonder, as I did, if anybody would pay that rate voluntarily. Turns out they do!)
- 💰💰 The **standard rate** is for folks who can reliably pay for their basic needs—food, housing, transportation—but sometimes stress about it. This rate is close to the “market rate” for one-on-one support of the kind I offer, and it’s about what I pay for services from other partswork practitioners.
- 💰 The **accessibility rate** is for folks who sometimes don’t have enough money to meet their basic needs. This is the lowest rate I can charge consistently without devaluing the work I do.

## More options!

I recognize that even my reduced rate is out of reach for most people. That’s why I offer other options, too:

- **DIY for free or cheap.** You can start exploring your inner world right now, using the easy and effective Internal Family Systems model, using these [free or low-cost resources](https://www.chudgar.com/tag/resources).
- **Financial support for coaching.** If you want some professional support to do the inner work you need to do, and my reduced rate would cause you economic hardship, [*please get in touch*](https://www.chudgar.com/contact)—I am happy to find a price that works for you.