Angry over insurance, iin?

I recently started seeing this therapist who does not take insurance that is out of her plan, which is fine by me. My doctor had been honest on our first appointment as well as in her forms as to why she did not take insurance. Her reasons and concerns made perfect sense to me and I told her that.

However, my family has not taken so well to this bit of information. Its only two people in my family that are having the issue. The first person is the main reason why I went into therapy, though she doesn't know this, and from the beginning she had been very hostile about the idea. Even now this person still has a huge issue with me going to see a therapist and me being "secretive" about details related to it. During the week I saw my doctor and this current one, she keeps bringing up the bit about the insurance. Its almost as if she is trying to make me paranoid about seeing my doctor due to the things she has said. She has said that my therapist's reasons/concerns over not taking insurance is bullshit. It is for a fact not and I have even gone on various credible websites which have reinforced my therapist's concerns. I told my findings to this relative who said that basically everything on the internet was untrue.

This relative also went on a rant about the price of the appointments saying that it was "too outrageously high" and that the appointments should only be $60 which is below the law's minimal standard of pay! A 50 minute (considered an hour) appointment is the minimal $110. It is not outrageously expensive. I think what should be considered outrageous is the fact that this person believes that they should be paid such a low amount, which is to me, unreasonable and unfair due to many factors. My relative in her rants likes to repeatedly say that I can't afford this much money and gets especially angered over the fact that my therapist usually sees her clients once a week. This is yet another thing that she has said that is untrue. I am not scrounging around for money and hanging out in the gutter. While I am not rich, I'm certainly not poor. At the time being, this is something that I can afford. Just because my doctor sees her clients usually once a week doesn't mean that I am being forced to follow suit.

Most of the members of my mother's side of the family have shown themselves to be mentally unstable, unreasonable and plain old-fashioned so, in a way, I should not be surprised at how they are behaving but yet, I am. It angers me how they can talk so badly about my therapist when they don't even know her. Is the way the are carrying on normal?