BetterHelp is the world's largest counseling service and is 100% online.Get professional, convenient and affordable counseling provided by licensed, accredited and vetted counselors that you can trust. Get help with a range of issues including depression, anxiety, relationships, trauma, grief, and more. With our counselors, you get the same professionalism and quality you would expect from an in-office counselor, but with the ability to communicate when and how you want.Learn more at www.betterhelp.com.
BetterHelp (betterhelp.com) has 9,555 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 4.4 out of 5.
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2026
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It says you can reach out to therapist at anytime but the truth is something else what you pay per week is just to set up one online meeting with a therapist 🤷🏻♀️
Response from BetterHelpOct 10, 2025
Hi Senhaji,
Apologies for any confusion, but your membership allows you access to far more than just one live session per week with your assigned therapist.
A membership also includes the ability to join "Classes" (which take place in a "webinar" format) or "Groups" sessions with other members, led by a different therapist. You'd get access to a digital journal that you can choose to share selected entries with your therapist, goal tracking, worksheets, and more.
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Austin L.
Predatory Service
They’re launching a business by preying on the most vulnerable folks. Their adds speak so highly of what they do but when it’s all said and done this is a business venture that will gladly get you to sign up KNOWING they don’t accept your insurance and then send you a full price bill.
Response from BetterHelpOct 10, 2025
Hi Austin,
Although we're working to expand the range of carriers we're working with, we unfortunately are not able to work with insurance carriers in every state just yet. I'm very sorry for any inconvenience or disappointment! If the price of our membership plans seems out of reach, our Member Success team should be able to help you enroll in our financial aid program to reduce the price of care.
If you haven't already, please reply to any of our emails, or contact us directly at "[email protected]" for any assistance with this.
Thank you,
BetterHelp Team
KM
Kate M.
The therapist was terrible, still waiting for money back
The therapist was terrible. She wanted to spend 2 if not 3 sessions going over my whole past. You only get 4 sessions in a block for a ridiculous price. I told her I didn’t need to go over my history. Somewhat up-themselves as if they know you better than you know yourself. The sessions I had I wanted refunded because she was honestly useless. I just kept getting told I could change therapist but they would then want to waste 2 sessions talking about my past. It was one issue, which was current, that I wanted to talk about. Ended up figuring it out myself. I’m still waiting for my money back. Don’t bother with Betterhelp: useless.
RESPONSE TO BETTERHELP: I’ve sent my details. I await the refund. I’ll update here when I get it.
Response from BetterHelpOct 10, 2025
We appreciate you sharing your experience here, Kate, and we're very sorry if we were not able to find you a therapist that could help you address your primary issue you were looking for support with! While we do have a team of matching specialists that can help provide you some options, you also have the option to choose your next therapist from a list of available options that fit your unique criteria.
In any case, we may be able to have a manager work with you to help provide a partial refund and/or walk you through the process of selecting your next therapist on your end. I've rqeuested the email address linked to your account in case you'd like more help with this!
Talk soon,
BetterHelp Team
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Michaela Thurston A.
I have paid for 12 sessions and only…
I have paid for 12 sessions and only had 9 i arranged wirth my therapist to do 3 more sessions till the end of october the subscription renews tomorrow so I planned to cancel the subscription so I didnt pay another subscription for sessions I wont use. Immediately I cancelled they cancelled the 2 sessions booked as there was no option to book beyond those dates. I have paid £195 for 3 sessions I havent had its another subscription scam.
Response from BetterHelpOct 3, 2025
Hi Michaela,
Apologies for any frustration or confusion here. Have you reached out to our Member Success team? We can generally help provide extensions to a membership if you were having issues booking desired weekly live sessions with your therapist. We should also be able to help come to a billing resolution.
I've requested the email address linked to your BetterHelp account in case you need further assistance.
TS
Tieko S.
I would give a 0 if I could
I would give a 0 if I could. Very scammy for a company that promotes helping. Instead they disguise themselves with giving you a deal for one session then charge your card week for other sessions that you didn’t sign up for. Beware!!!!!
Response from BetterHelpOct 2, 2025
We apologize if the membership billing was unclear in any way, Tieko! Our weekly plan bills you every 7 days for your ongoing access to your therapist, until you cancel.
We can certainly look into this further for you and find a solution to help. I've requested the email address linked to your BetterHelp account so we can reach out directly.
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Russell G.
I wanted to love the outcome of my…
I wanted to love the outcome of my experience, but BetterHelp is not designed for everyone, certainly not me. I don’t want to say my experience is unique, but I’m dealing with aging parents and complex set of problems with getting my family into care. I’ve tried this service a few times, and for one reason or another the counselors and I couldn’t connect. One did connect and had a single session, then his ring (I assume it was his ring light) fell on his computer and this caused a fire, and he cancelled my appointment within hours of the appointment. BetterHelp should have the same canceling policies for customers and providers, but they don’t. I did get offered credits, but I don’t want damn credits, I wanted help.
Based on my experience, I simply cannot recommend this organization. I certainly didn’t have any luck, and I felt left “high and dry.” The customer care team was responsive and they tried to connect me, or rather have me connect with another counselor. I looked, but not of their cadre looked like a compatible fit.
I’m simply utterly disgusted with this service and I thought there would be more resources, more connection, and feedback. The only feedback I got was after my session. In a way, I feel the TV ads and ads on NPR are misleading. BetterHelp portrays a system that has more access to care than they really do. I put days into my journal, and i expected some feedback from the homework assignment I was given. Instead, I’m sorry my computer “burned up.”
Response from BetterHelpOct 2, 2025
Thank you for sharing about your experience, Russel. We definitely understand why you'd be frustrated and disaappointed -- you deserve much more than what you got, and this is not a typical experience.
It sounds like you were in touch with our Member Success team, and while they likely did file a report with our Clinical Operations team, we'd like to be sure that the remaining steps were taken to ensure we've done our part in fixing this. I've requested the email address linked to your BetterHelp account so we can have a member of our management team reach out directly.
Hope to talk soon,
BetterHelp Team
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Please do not pay for your mental …
Please do not pay for your mental health conditions these companies are out to exploit u and profit from u!
See your GP to refer to to a mental health nurse if you have a good GP they will help and support you!
There is free courses and help like " Hope" a course which is supported by GPs and the NHS which is absolutely free its called HOPE program ( Google it) it's a amazing course and helped me when I lost my 3 year old daughter.
But please don't use these so called companies which are just there for one thing to exploit u and make monies to line their pockets they are only interested in making money they even get YouTubers to sponsor them to make more money ! It's a warning that you don't have to pay nothing to get support for your mental health
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Sean D.
Rejected from getting health insurance…
I was rejected from getting health insurance solely for the reason of using Betterhelp. Not because I had physical or mental issues, literally just for being in betterhelp, the insurance company determined that I had pre-existing mental health symptoms and I was denied.
So if you're planning to apply for insurance, I highly recommend to not use betterhelp, as they can look into your past history if you've used it even if you aren't using it actively now.
If I've known this would be the case, I'd never use Betterhelp. I was just using it to chat with daily life stuff, the topics we'd go over was never remotely even related to severe mental health conditions like depression.
I've explained this to betterhelp hoping they could help me prove the above to the insurance company, or at least assist me with the matter, but they did not. All they did was tell me they couldn't do anything and that I had to figure it out with the insurance company myself.
So for all the reasons mentioned here, I really highly recommend against betterhelp since not being able to get health insurance is a pretty big deal.
Response from BetterHelpSep 25, 2025
Hi Sean,
We're very sorry to hear that you're having issues obtaining health coverage. Unfortunately, we have no control over an insurance carrier's decision to offer coverage or not, and members of our subscription service have the ability to download a billing invoice to show what they were paying for, but we do not offer diagnostic or procedural codes as a platform to those who are part of our membership service.
If you haven't already downloaded the invoice, you should be able to still do so from your Account Settings page if you look for "Billing History"