LifeStance HealthReviews of lifestance.com

The experience was great and very helpful.

Brooke is extremely professional, warm and supportive. I appreciate that we share a cautious approach to Rx use. I anlso appreciate her willingness to use two different pharmacies (due to higher price and limited availability.) My thanks for an improved quality of life!

We have a good relationship with our therapist. 2nd meeting mor substantive than the first.

I’ve only had three sessions with Jennifer H, but she has already been a tremendous help! I feel seen, heard and valued.

My personal experience with both my clinical team and the amazing administrative staff, AKA “the backbone of the organization” ensuring the whole operation runs smoothly (the ship would sink without them- let’s just have honest conversations here 😉) has been phenomenal. It does not mean everything always runs perfectly, that’s just life, but it does mean human moments, “when you try your best but don’t succeed” (thanks Coldplay 😆), are taken seriously, handled with respect, compassion, dignity, thoughtfulness, and appropriately addressed and corrected; that earns trust and respect. I highly recommend this organization to provide mental health care that is anchored in treating the whole person; mind, body, spirit. The mental health system in America has repeatedly failed men, women, and children for a plethora of reasons, and it is for that reason that I can recommend Lifestance. What sets their team as a whole apart is as follows: 1) They care about restoring a person to wholeness, which is a complex process that requires listening to understand, staying up to date with ongoing research and clinical studies, humility, a robust understanding of trauma and appropriate treatment methods, refusing to simply mask symptoms with medications while simultaneously ignoring circumstances, environments, and identifying root causes in order to develop a treatment plan for wholeness (healing into thriving) vs treatment plans that keep an individual broken and dependent on the system to simply “survive”. In short: humans are complex, and restoration is a process that takes time and a unique approach if we are to responsibly assess and provide treatment plans that help humans heal at a deep level in order for restoration and thriving to occur. To reduce any human to a list of symptoms, diagnosis, medications, and subsequently speak a future of brokenness and struggle over them is cruelty and medical negligence at the highest level. 2) A collaborative “team” approach on your healing journey. Few things are more harmful and discouraging to a human who is struggling, actively seeking help to get better, and willing to do the work, only to be set back further due to medical negligence from the very humans assigned to help them heal. To feel misunderstood, unheard, disrespected, limited, put in a box, like you are simply another number, broken, or somehow beneath a clinician while recovering from trauma simply because they have the degree should never be the experience for any human seeking to get well. Compassion and kindness must always be paired with a high degree of clinical competency in order to avoid harm. The environment or culture that produce these experiences for many seeking mental health care is all too common, and creating a culture where clinicians are held to incredibly high standards to ensure this is not the case is taken seriously at Lifestance. The clinical team aims to empower the client to be actively involved in his/her treatment goals and plan to the degree it is clinically appropriate. The point is that your voice will be heard and taken into account, you will be treated with compassion, and it is understood that there is no rushing through the process of healing. These are foundational principles when restoring a human’s sense of self and confidence after experiencing trauma. 3) Lifestance prioritizes the health of their clinical team. An organization that prioritizes the mental health of their clinical team to ensure they in turn provide the best care for their own clients should just be a given, but that simply is not the case. To create a culture where a clinician has flexibility to do their own self-care/therapeutic work when tragedy strikes or “life be lifing” (they are real people with their own real lives outside of work and own trauma), resources and accountability that they are getting the support they need to do their own work in order to responsibly help others is key to avoiding unintentional harm to a client; Lifestance prioritizes this. 4) Lifestance takes seriously how heavy a clinician’s assessment, proper documentation, adherence to HIPPA practices, and appropriate treatment plan matters not only in a client’s current circumstance, but also in the unforeseen future. Divorces happen. Custody battles happen. Court happens, and if a clinician gets a diagnosis wrong, does not provide appropriate treatment, or assesses the situation incorrectly and then comes to an inaccurate conclusion, children and parents pay the price, we are seeing that play out as a nation with the Lindsay Clancy trial; we must do better. I am beyond grateful for my clinical team and the administrative staff that I have had the privilege and honor to work alongside on my own healing journey.

Lifestance has really helped me with coping skills with my anxiety.

My provider was timely, knowledgeable and so compassionate toward my whole health. Scheduling and the portal have been amazingly simple and the staff Inhave interacted with are capable and polite.

Professionalism and consideration.