The sign-up process…When Did Betterhelp Raise Their Series B…
From there, you’ll be asked a series of concerns in an intake questionnaire about your gender identity, age, sexual orientation, and relationship status. In detailing your sexual orientation, you are given the choices of straight, gay, lesbian, bi/pan, “Choose not to state”, “Questioning”, queer, asexual, “I don’t know”, and “Other”.
Surprisingly enough, users will discover below this concern in the kind a highlighted reality: “Therapists on the platform have diverse backgrounds. You’ll have the ability to request a Christian therapist if required”. So, throughout the intake survey, if you answer that your religion is Christian, you will be asked “Would you like to be matched with a Christian-based therapist?”
If you answer that you recognize with a various religion, you won’t get asked if you want to match with a therapist of that faith. I tried addressing this question 3 times, each time stating I was from a different faith, and never ever got that very same follow-up.
After the questions about your identity and religious association, you will be asked to finish concerns about your mental health history, such as whether you have actually ever been in therapy prior to and what led you to therapy today. Alternatives for what led you to treatment include “I’ve been feeling depressed”, “My state of mind is interfering with my job/school performance”, “I am grieving”, and 10 other options. You will be asked what your expectations are from your therapist, such as a therapist who listens, explores your past, teaches your new skills, designates you homework, and more.
The platform will ask you to rank your existing physical health and eating practices from great, fair, and poor.
It will ask you if you are experiencing frustrating unhappiness or depression. Following this, there will be a few concerns from the Client Health Questionnaire, or the PHQ-9, an evaluation used to evaluate for anxiety.
You will be asked if you are currently utilized as well as how frequently you consume alcohol. Other screening concerns towards the end include if you have any problems with intimacy and when the last time you considered suicide was– if ever.