Pride Counseling (A review)

This article will give a brief idea of “Pride Counseling”, what is it, how to avail the service, its usability, and its effectiveness.

Later, it will highlight it’s counseling specialties.

WHAT IS PRIDE COUNSELING?

Pride Counseling is an online portal that provides online counseling to the LGBTQ community.

This platform is for the people who need help conveniently and affordably.

It has been found that youths in the LGBTQ community are so much depressed that they are very highly likely to commit suicide.

Pride counseling understands the issue at hand both from psychological and financial points.

People find it difficult to understand what these individuals experience and go through on a daily basis.

Although the counselors or other supporting staff in pride counseling are not from the LGBTQ community they still understand their condition.

Although this portal is not just for the LGBTQ community but also for the people who seek help for depression and anxiety disorders.

HOW TO AVAIL THE SERVICE?

It is like any other counseling website, first of all, you need to sign up to the website using your email address, then an initial survey to get your basic credentials will appear.

Then it will ask”whether have you taken therapy before?”, then after completing around 20 questions, you would be required to create your own account.

Then according to the answers given, there will be a match for the therapist and once you get the match you’ll be assigned that therapist.

The entire process will take approximately 5 minutes to complete and then the payment page will appear.

Pricing:

Pride Counseling has one of the best prices as compared to other counseling therapy portals.

Their basic price starts from $65 per week with unlimited sessions which are way cheaper, if someone goes for face to face counseling, he would be charged in between $250-$300 per session.

While other therapy portals try to persuade people with monthly packages, either they take only around 4 sessions in the entire month which results in, expensive packages.

On the other hand, pride counseling provides long term packages as well as short term packages, both are considered to be the cheapest packages that are affordable for everybody.

USABILITY:

To use the counseling services from Pride Counseling, one need to have a desktop, mobile phone, and internet, it’s as easy as that.

Once the payment has been completed, you are then directed to the chat room which has a standard messaging system with which one can have therapist’s messages and can schedule video and audio calls with the therapist.

Its portal can be opened on the mobile as well which is just on a smaller screen but shows everything that is necessary and is very effective.

One is supposed to book an appointment for the chat session, video session and/or audio session with the therapist and at the scheduled time.

If something comes up with the therapist and the time does not seem to be good enough for him/her then they’ll let know of that and will reschedule the session which will be convenient for either party.

The same goes for scheduling or booking another appointment with the therapist.

As long as one has an internet connection, he will receive the messages from the therapist and one does not need to be connected all the time.

EFFECTIVENESS:

Pride Counseling has the most efficient therapists and with a good amount of experience in their field.

But the number of years don’t tell the efficiency and not all the individual can be benefitted from all the counselors. It depends on person to person.

A person can read the credentials of the therapist on the website before paying or taking therapy sessions.

This will allow people to choose their therapists according to their skills and according to the person’s needs.

Confidentiality & Privacy:

Like the therapy sessions taken in person, here also the confidentiality of a client is the first and the foremost thing to be taken care of.

The privacy of the client is important and it in fact maintains the rapport between the client and the therapist and therefore, it’s kept safe.

If any therapists violate it, they have to suffer consequences for the same.  

Counselors Qualifications:

The counselors or therapists in Pride Counseling are qualified in their areas of expertise and all have the necessary certification and license to practice. Everybody works with each other as a team.

These professionals are ranged from PhDs/PsyDs to LMFTs, LCSWs, LMSWs, or LPCs.

Each and every one of them hold a master’s or a doctorate degree in their field of training. And all of them are qualified to provide counseling to the LGBTQ community.

SPECIALTIES:

People with LGBTQ community who seek help for the mental health issues Pride Counseling is the best portal for that.

Although there are other portals as well not every portal has a focal point for the LGBTQ community.

But this portal still helps with other problem areas and they are-

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Addiction
• Bipolar Disorder
• Career
• Eating Disorders
• Grief
• Health
• Intimacy
• Relationships
• Religion
• Insomnia
• Trauma & Abuse

The people either from the LGBTQ community or not, if they suffer from any of the above problems then they are likely to get the best counseling and therapy sessions from Pride Counseling.

CONCLUSION:

This article has given a brief idea of “Pride Counseling”, what is it, how to avail the service, its usability, and its effectiveness.

Later, it has highlighted it’s counseling specialties.

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CITATIONS:

e-counseling.com