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Psychology Today has a rating of 1.6 stars from 70 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Psychology Today most frequently mention mental health problems. Psychology Today ranks 46th among Therapist sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Life-changing help and support!”

Andrea S.
4/14/21

I needed help for anger issues and anxiety, and turned to the Psychology Today site. I've heard that it sometimes takes a few tries to find the right therapist, but I was lucky, and found Lynn Crawford right away. Her gentle, accepting manner put me right at ease, and working with her showed me how to free myself from the cycle of negative and destructive thoughts. I am learning how to understand and accept my emotions, and feel at peace more than I ever have before. If you are anxious, angry or stressed and don't know what to do about it, do yourself a favour and pick up the phone. You'll be glad you did.

Top Critical Review

“Looking for therapist-good luck!”

Laughing A.
3/29/24

As I tried to navigate the therapist in my area and either call or email- out of 50+ I got 2 responses, first one insurance didn't pay her enough and second is still in limbo- discussed with this process as someone trying to get better inside and out!

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Thumbnail of user alinan17
Missouri
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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November 22nd, 2020

Hello Everybody,
I have hired two different female counselors in the past few years, non of them helped me and my family achieve on what we needed help with. At the first consultation with both of the "Counselors" they showed concern, interest in helping and made us feel hopeful that our family situation should be much better and solved in a few months to a year.
Well, this was just like a trap, we gave everything we possible could, from in person meetings, emails communications, text messages and phone calls, it quickly turned into a nightmare. The counselor or therapist turned to be very harsh, disrespectful, unprofessional and we left their "office" each and every time feeling horrible and disappointed for the lack of help and disrespect of the counselor with us. One of the counselors is worse than the other, and made us feel and think we were not knowledgeable about anything and that we were guilty for everything.
Yes, this is how these two counselors from psychology today made their daily living. They ROBBED insurance money and cash, for ZERO help.

I am hoping this review will help other innocent people who are in desperate need of immediate help and get cheated and misunderstood by some arrogant, racist and hypocrite counselors and therapists.

May God bless you and your family and I wish you the best when finding the right counselor to help you achieve your needs and goals.

Thanks for reading.

Tip for consumers:
Do not give all of your information to any counselor before doing a deep search on them to make sure you will not be disappointed later.

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Thumbnail of user gwens57
New Mexico
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December 17th, 2018

There service is terrible. They don't forward e-mails. I have lost anywhere form 10-15 referrals When I addressed this with them they told me to check my profile more. They are the only game in town and have ZILTCH SENSE OF MORAILTY and commitment beyond collecting money

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Pennsylvania
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March 9th, 2023

I'm a provider listed on Psychology Today. Their customer service is the worst I have ever experienced. They don't provide any way for clinicians to provide feedback or make suggestions about the platform, and when I contacted them with a complaint, their customer service reps actually ghosted me. I wasn't asking for Psychology Today to immediately change their platform to meet my expectations, I was simply asking for my feedback to be acknowledged and for assurance that it reached the desk of someone in management. In this post-pandemic era, many therapists are licensed in multiple states in order to provide teletherapy to patients across the country. Psych Today requires clinicians to create multiple accounts and separately pay for each account if we want to show up in search results for more than two states! This is a bad faith move and an enormous financial burden on small business owners, in addition to a sign that the company is hopelessly out of touch with the professional needs of contemporary therapists. Behind the scenes, this company is unprofessional and clearly doesn't prioritize the clinicians or patients it claims to serve. There are plenty of other sites that connect therapists with clients, and with service like this, Psychology Today will become gradually less relevant to therapists until it finally goes out of business.

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Missouri
36 reviews
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January 20th, 2018

I took an IQ test from the test section. It promised to give me a basic snapshot for free, but the snapshot was incredibly vague. Also, the test was ripped off a different also fake website.

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Australia
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March 6th, 2024

I cant express the disappoint of the experience I received today...

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Thumbnail of user kathym1915
New York
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December 8th, 2022

As a Therapist I have used this site and receive SOME clients. Though not many. My biggest frustration is regarding communication with this company. Though as a Therapist listed, magazine subscriptions are supposed to be complimentary. Have had a profile on this site since October and have yet to get the magazines delivered to my requested address YET I have received 2 bills asking for payment of the subscription. When I call to speak to a live person; I have to leave all my info along with my email. No phone calls EVER returned. The email reply told me how much it was monthly to list my profile and get a complimentary subscription! HELLO: I am a listed Therapist already and noted that and did not get an answer to where is my free magazine after 3 months and why are they billing me. I'm assuming the phone message wasn't heard correctly. LOOK UP THE PROFILE before responding to your customers!
So frustrated with this as well as lack of activity I may switch my profile to an alternate site!

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Nigeria
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September 5th, 2022

An examination for which average levels of performance have been established and which has shown consistent results is

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Thumbnail of user lauras2002
Virginia
2 reviews
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May 2nd, 2021

Psychology Today's list of referred therapists is serious and reliable. The requirements are reviewed by a team and they do not accept everybody.

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Use the online referral list.

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Thumbnail of user ah707
Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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August 10th, 2023

How about notifying therapist, when they're adding a credit card, that they're actually being charged. Truly pathetic.

Thumbnail of user amandaw583
Massachusetts
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August 30th, 2020

The therapist that you contact don't even email or call you no matter what. No response either way. Line if thai could take me as a client or not

Thumbnail of user moyert
Pennsylvania
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March 31st, 2021

I emailed a number of therapists to assist me with divorce related issues - not one therapist emailed me back - useless

Thumbnail of user bd186
California
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March 8th, 2022

Email to therapists are not answered. Phone calls are not answered or returned. No help at all! A huge waste of time.

Thumbnail of user samanthah561
California
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December 13th, 2021

Every person on their list is either not available, non-existent, or just awful. Horrible site with obviously no proper management.

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GB
3 reviews
9 helpful votes
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February 18th, 2016

After spending almost 20 minutes on a depression test and making it seem free, the result was, if you want to know, pay. Not recommended

Thumbnail of user ca312
Alabama
1 review
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May 4th, 2022

Lorna Bell is a horrible therapist she's more concerned with applying her lip gloss than helping people.

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Thumbnail of user rebeccar744
Canada
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December 20th, 2020

I tried to convince my husband to do one last attempt at therapy before separation but it was a disaster. The Therapist humiliated me during therapy. I mentioned i was a prostitute at one point during marriage to put food on the table because my husband was unable to work and i had been fired from my job and was desperately looking for work to pay bills and all hell broke lose. Therapist had the nerve to say because i asked my husband if it was okay to escort before i did it i already cheated and its something you don't do. I exclaimed that i did it to put food on the table. While He contacted prostitutes for sex for the fun of it and spent money we did not have. Therapist was silent than i said either way i no longer escort for a year since we are in much of a better place. Therapist exclaimed he did not care and that i still escorted at some point in the marriage. I informed therapist that a marriage exists between two people who are in love and set an agreement between each other. If we agree on what is okay and not okay but the other person is stepping out doing whatever they want without asking permission like what my husband did its flat out wrong. Regardless of whether you consider it cheating or not because i escorted. Therapist was silent. Than during the whole session he basically told us we need to figure out if we want this relationship to be monogamous or be polyamarous and the whole time im like ive been monogamous for a year with him! Theres nothing to figure out. Its like he had this mentality that oh i escorted so im just a whore. I assumed that he wouldn't let his christian/Catholic beliefs cloud his judgement but it did. I left his office with no help for our marriage just made to feel inferior. I will never contact Mark A Kolodziej
ever again in my life! And the messed up part was we had a great day that day and the therapy session ruined our entire mood and possibly any hope for reconciliation.

Thumbnail of user leahr93
Minnesota
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October 22nd, 2020

I saw Mrs Vian Gredvig. She was always kind respectful caring. She went above her call of
Being a therapist. I would Highly recommend
Her.

Thumbnail of user alinan14
Missouri
1 review
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April 19th, 2020

Hello Dear,
I am writing to you to make you aware about my experience while attending family counseling with- Nicole Marie McNeil at Clear Perspective, LLC-Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC. The reason I decided to make you aware of this issue is not only because of the horrible experience I encountered, but because I would not like for this to happen to anybody else, specially innocent people. I feel it is the right thing to do. And if I became a therapist or counselor I would never treat my clients this way.

Unprofessional, Disrespectful Therapist

For five (5) months my husband and I participated in family counseling with our minor daughter who has many psychiatric disorders and behavioral issues. The Therapist Nicole Marie McNeil, was unprofessional, rude and disrespectful to me and my husband.

Nicole works in concert with The Division of Family Service Children's Division. She was biased and in favor of our minor daughter. She was laser focused on all of the comments, feelings and wishes of our minor daughter.

Nicole never honored our observations, experiences, input or wishes about our minor daughter. She cut us short when we spoke, was very rude and rarely called us by our name. She will quickly say our daughters name, the foster parent name, the case worker name and all other people's name from Children's Division. She insulted us by stating that we only have conditional love for our daughter and we do not understand her psychiatric and behavioral issues.

She had the gall to write not one but two (2) letters with hurtful intent to the judge overemphasizing her beliefs how bad my husband and I are. This is 100% not true. We do not recommend using Nicole McNeil as a therapist or counselor.

Please find attached the letter Nicole McNeil wrote to the Lincoln County Juvenile Court.

Thank you.

Respectfully,
A former client

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Thumbnail of user jow122
Florida
1 review
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August 9th, 2020

I contacted a therapist from here for help with my daughter, In the beginning, before therapy and up to the 1st session all was well... what i didnt know was that her true self would jump out so quickly.
There was a delay on her script getting to the pharmacy because the Mom and Pop Pharmacy she was accostomed to using, our insurance did not approve them, so we had to try to find a way to get it to my daughter. 2 days past no script no meds, several phone call were made to her and she was trying to find a way to get it to us. I was unfortunate to be placed on the call on Sunday because I was going to the area where she practise, so after trying to arrange a meet up to collect the script, Dr Wilkinson started shouting at me and told me she was doing us a favor by trying to get the scrip to us. i experience a level of anger and disrespect from her like i have never encountered before.
The therapist is Carole Wilkinson NP DNP Psychiatrist Nurse Practitoner.
She had a problem getting her script to the pharmacy and thus there was some frustration on both ends.My daughter asked me to speak to her and MAN! She was extremely rude, unprofessional and actually disrespected me and talk to me like she was dealing with a 15 year old. To make matters worst, I met with her to collect the script and this person Did not turn off her car engine, Did not get out of her car and did not greet me, She pushed the script through the window and sped off like she was on a race track. The level of rage and anger was so profound that I kept wondering if any other client has experienced this.So concerned, I do not want anyone else to feel like a piece of trash after interacting with this practitioner. I have veen wondering why I was treated like this and cant see any justification for same behavior. Point is SHE IS THE THERAPIST!. So how can you treat a customer like this?

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