Browsing: Talkspace vs. Betterhelp

Why Nature Has A Positive Affect On Our Mental Health Does surrounding yourself with nature and its breathtaking beauty ever improve your mood and calm you down? The glistening sunlight, the lush greenery, little blooms of flowers bursting into a kaleidoscope of colors, the cold breeze swishing against your face and the soft muddy soil touching your feet—doesn’t it sound truly magical? Nature and its luxurious greenery really do have wondrous effects on the mind and the body. And, as it turns out, newly conducted research shows that growing up near green spaces is actually associated with improved mental health,…

Betterhelp was founded in 2013 and since then built up a team of over 8000 highly-qualified professionals. Their mission is to offer easy access and tailored service to all. Betterhelp offers one-to-one sessions and even group seminars through an app suitable both for iOS and Android, and a web app for any desktop. An experienced therapist is carefully assigned to each patient and they can interact through text, phone, and video call, offering both unlimited open chat and live sessions. The platform is highly secure and fully HIPAA compliant, ensuring that all patient data is protected using state-of-art security. Patients…

Therapy Apps – What You Need To Know The digital age is certainly upon us where anything and everything is just a click away on a smart device. Especially with the sudden increase in mental health awareness, it was only a matter of time before mental health treatment and therapy took a technical turn with apps like BetterHelp and Talkspace. Thousands of people struggling with mental health problems are now ditching the couch and picking up their phones to turn to online apps for treatment. The question that still remains is, can therapy apps really help and work with mental…

Talkspace is a well-recognized online therapy platform that offers therapy for various types of mental health conditions. Having received around $30 million in financial backing and celebrity endorsements, this service is one of the most recognizable brands for online therapy, followed by its most moderately priced competitor, Betterhelp. In December 2019, Jack Morse of Mashable wrote an article titled, How a dead veteran became the face of a therapy app’s Instagram ad. The company was criticized for using a veteran family’s loss to market a therapy service. A subsequent investigation into Talkspace’s policies raised vital questions concerning the power such…