Wildly affordable! With just as much, if not more access to talented professionals, valuable resources, as well as prompt and helpful customer service! It is user-friendly and visually simple.
I am exceptionally grateful for:
- The therapist search system.
- Therapist information pages that are very detailed and helpful.
- The affordability!
- The kind, helpful, and invested customer service representatives. (Every time I reach out to customer service, I feel like a family member is responding to me. Every customer service representative has gone above and beyond to take care of my needs. They even anticipate or suggest additional options, resources, and assistance!)
- The group therapy resource.
- The variety of group therapies I have to choose from!
- The talent, skill, and respect of the therapist that I have worked with.
- Constant, instant, regular communication between me and my therapist! This platform includes a message system between me and my therapist. (In the past, I’ve had therapists who are difficult to contact, or who I can only speak to during appointments.)
- The easy-to-use platform design.
- Contact settings for how the company can reach you and what they can send reminders for.
- Convenience!
Good customer service! I cannot stress this enough! Over my subscription with this service, I have had several payment problems. And the company has been consistently understanding and helpful! I’ve had other needs and requests that individuals have been champions at problem-solving for me.
The visually simple and easy-to-use platform is helpful to me because I suffer from anxiety, and I can become easily overwhelmed.
BetterHelp uses a search engine with a detailed questionnaire to match people to their ideal therapist. On your own, those kinds of specifications can take weeks of research, phone calls, and wasted money, time, and effort on first-time appointments to vet and choose the best therapist for you! (I’m the kind of person who doesn’t have time or energy to do all of that extra legwork!)
Contact settings are important to me because I can become overwhelmed with too many texts or emails. So it’s important that I can control what they contact me about and why. (Honestly, I can look at a text in my messages for a couple of weeks before I get up the strength to open it! I know that sounds weird, but it’s real and I’ve got it bad!)
Length of Use: 6–12 months
Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Pros and Cons
Helpful. I have found the help I need.
Easy to use. (I’m easily, anxious and overwhelmed, but I can handle this!)
Affordable!
Good customer service!
Payment structure. I wish they allowed for billing and took checks.
The therapist search engine does not have the option of looking up a therapists treatment technique.
Once you switch therapists you lose your previous journals. I want to maintain all of my journals and choose which ones my therapist can read, even if they are journals before I had that therapist.