Denied Clients with Recourse - Therapist Talkspace Employee Review

1.0
15 Aug 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Initially, I enjoyed TalkSpace. It gave me the opportunity to work with clients along with my full-time job teaching therapy at a local University.

Cons

I received in worked with two clients who were very challenging. I believe neither client was well suited for online therapy. One was tangential I believe had a thought disorder. I asked for help from the TalkSpace staff. When she left, she gave me an unfavorable review. A second time I got a client who was quite narcissistic. Again I reached out for assistance and finally, he left my counsel after a couple of months. He too gave me a poor review. I was talked to by a lovely therapist who had no details of what had happened. Even though I had been successful with many other clients, after his counsel, TalkSpace informed me I would not receive any more clients. I felt disheartened. I have been a therapist for over 20 years and taught therapy to graduate students. There was no recourse. I stopped doing online therapy for a year. After I retired, I began working on another platform, and I feel things are going well.

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Talkspace Response
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We're sorry to hear you had this experience at Talkspace. As you know, we have a dedicated and designated leadership team within the Talkspace Community available at any time to support therapists' work with clients. It's important to us that clients receive the highest quality of clinical care! Thank you so much for you feedback in this and for taking the time to share about your experience. We want therapists to enjoy being on the platform, expanding access to therapy worldwide. But your feedback helps ensure that we’re considering the right concerns and questions, so thank you again.

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