In today’s fast paced world, filled with instant gratification, instant expectations, and feeling the need to be all things to everybody, therapy is something that is needed more than ever before.
Anxiety levels are rising, the use of prescription medications to make people “feel calmer” is at an all-time high, and people are simply feeling like they’re “burning out”.
The effect this has on people’s lives and relationships has led to higher divorce rates, and a general lack of productiveness. Add issues around past trauma, and even the simplest tasks can feel overwhelming some days.
People need help, and this help isn’t always readily available through traditional support systems like family and friends. Our family and friends are often busy themselves, or struggling through their own lives.
The time to attend therapy sessions regularly and consistently can feel like a daunting task, or almost like it’s not worth the time.
Similarly, the stigma around attending therapy is enough to make people not want to seek help. Wanting to keep therapy a secret can be what makes attending impossible.
Now you discreetly get the help you need and deserve without worrying about the judgement of others.
What Is Talkspace?
Talkspace offers online therapy services, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Whether it be through messaging, email, or video chat, Talkspace will provide you with a therapist who will help walk you through different aspects of your life.
Talkspace therapists are real therapists, offering specialties in all areas of need. Now you can access YOUR therapist anytime, from any device.
No more unbearably long wait times between sessions, now you can send a message to your therapist anytime, and wait for a response.
Talkspace Confidentiality
Talkspace uses bank-grading encryption to ensure all your information is kept confidential. There is no need to worry about whether someone else will have access to your personal information.
How Does Talkspace Work?
The steps to get started are generally the same for everyone, once you get started your therapist will offer you individualized therapy in relation to your life and your needs. This will be the first step to an improved state of mind and quality of life.
Starting Talkspace
Once you apply online, you will chat with a therapist that specializes in your needs who will assess your next steps.
Choose a payment plan that suits your needs and your budget, plans start at $32 a week.
Talkspace will choose a therapist that will best match your profile and your needs.
Now you can begin your therapy sessions. You can message your therapist from anywhere, any time.
Once you get started, you will have the same licensed therapist every time you contact them. This is to ensure continuity of care and professionalism, and to ensure you are comfortable with the therapist in charge of your sessions.
The chatroom will remain open, so you can contact them anytime the mood arises.
This is what sets Talkspace apart from seeing a therapist in an office, if you’re having a tough time working through something, you can unload that information into the chatroom right away.
Talkspace understands that things happen daily that cannot be scheduled, this service is available to ensure you have the help you need, when you need it.
Your therapist will respond 1-2 times a day, if you feel you require more time than this, you can easily schedule a video chat to use your time more efficiently.
If you have questions at any time, customer support is available to answer these non-clinical questions for you.
Talkspace is available to you through 3 different avenues:
- Unlimited Messaging Therapy – $32/week
- Live Talk Therapy Ultimate – $99/week
- Couples Therapy – $59/week
Talkspace For Business
Talkspace is now also available for businesses. It’s been proven that when businesses offer therapy to their employees, productivity increases, fewer sick days are taken, and employee retention improves.
In addition to therapy sessions, the Talkspace blog offers practical tips on how to manage daily from subjecst like “5 Unusual Ways To Boost Your Mental Health” to “How Sleep Deprivation Hurts Your Mental Health”.
The Talkspace blog is a place you can visit for daily tips or ideas, and where you can learn about practical ways to help you improve your own mental health in between sessions.
Gone are the days of awkward first meetings, long couches, traffic, scheduling around work and responsibilities, and tissue boxes with strangers.
Talkspace has created an avenue for therapy that fits into today's fast paced world, and is available discreetly to anyone who feels they could use a little extra help to get through whatever challenges they may have.
You will never have to share with others that you’ve made the choice to begin therapy if you don’t want to, the stigma has been enough for others to choose not to seek help, now this doesn’t have to be the case. Talkspace allows you to keep your private life private.
On a different note, Talkspace can be shared with loved ones, so they too can have access to what could be a life changing experience.
Whether it’s through the individual 24-hour access to a licensed therapist, through the blog where they can receive practical solutions to questions they may have, or through Talkspace for business; sharing Talkspace can change the lives of those you care about, leading to an improved quality of life.
Talkspace Summary
Whatever your needs or life challenges are, Talkspace provides only licensed therapists who specialize in different areas, making Talkspace a place where anyone can get the help they desire, any time they feel fit.
We can’t schedule emotions, we can’t schedule when our lives feel like they’re unraveling, it only makes sense that therapists can be made available to help us deal with difficult situations in real time.
Choose a plan, choose a therapist, and make a choice to improve your life with Talkspace.
