Her Time Therapy Blog

If you're a therapist weighing whether to join Alma, Headway, BetterHelp, or one of the dozen platforms promising to take the business headache off your plate, I want to talk to you honestly, clinician to clinician. Not to shame you. To show you what's underneath the offer, because most of us were never taught to see it.

You found a therapist. You booked the free consultation. Now you're sitting with a list of questions you found online: What's your approach? Do you take my insurance? How much do you charge? Those are good questions. But there's one almost no one tells you to ask, and it may matter more than all the others combined.

Work is a significant part of the lives we lead. It is something that we do for much of the day, almost every day, for decades of our...