For years, I went to therapy every week and I gained so much from it—but I never thought I’d try online therapy until recently.
I decided to give BetterHelp Online Therapy a try and review it and…
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My Past Experience With Counseling and Therapy
As I mentioned, I did therapy in the past for years.
The reason I initially started going stemmed from repeated patterns in my dating life that I felt really hopeless about.
I ate lunch with a girlfriend of mine and she recommended counseling a few times to me…but it took a while for me to come around.
Finally one day, she mentioned a friend of hers that just started a practice and offered negotiable prices to new clients, which sounded appealing to me since my main excuse in the past involved the cost.
Since this counselor didn’t take insurance and was new, he offered a more reasonable price than I’d heard from others.
I don’t really want to mention his name, but I will say this—the next couple of years changed my life.
I started going to counseling to figure out my dating issues, but I got so much more out of it than that.
What I Learned About Myself
Back then, I was abusing alcohol.
I no longer think I’m an alcoholic like I did at the time, but I did learn a lot about WHY I was drinking so much and how to heal.
A lot of what we did in therapy was deal with family of origin issues and cognitive behavioral therapy—in other words, I learned more practical tools for dealing with confusing and intense feelings, and I learned how to articulate and take care of myself better.
After two years I “graduated” to group therapy, where I met with a different therapist and a group of 5 women once a week for around a year.
Near the end of that, I started dating my now-husband and once I felt confident that I was in a healthy relationship, my therapist helped me make the decision that it was ok to be done with therapy.