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From there, you’ll be asked a series of questions in a consumption questionnaire about your gender identity, age, sexual orientation, and relationship status. In detailing your sexual orientation, you are provided the options of straight, gay, lesbian, bi/pan, “Choose not to state”, “Questioning”, queer, nonsexual, “I don’t know”, and “Other”.
Surprisingly enough, users will find below this question in the kind a highlighted fact: “Therapists on the platform have varied backgrounds. You’ll be able to request a Christian therapist if needed”. During the intake questionnaire, if you respond to that your religion is Christian, you will be asked “Would you like to be matched with a Christian-based therapist?”
However, if you answer that you identify with a various religious beliefs, you won’t get asked if you wish to match with a therapist of that faith. I tried addressing this question 3 times, each time saying I was from a various religion, and never got that exact same follow-up. That being said, the only choices for “Which religion do you relate to?” consist of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Other.
After the questions about your identity and religious affiliation, you will be asked to complete concerns about your mental health history, such as whether you have actually ever been in therapy prior to and what led you to treatment today. Options for what led you to treatment include “I have actually been feeling depressed”, “My state of mind is interfering with my job/school performance”, “I am mourning”, and 10 other options. Then, you will be asked what your expectations are from your therapist, such as a therapist who listens, explores your past, teaches your new abilities, designates you research, and more.
The platform will ask you to rate your existing physical health and consuming habits from good, reasonable, and bad.
It will ask you if you are experiencing overwhelming unhappiness or anxiety. Following this, there will be a few questions from the Patient Health Survey, or the PHQ-9, an assessment used to evaluate for anxiety.
If you are currently employed as well as how often you consume alcohol, you will be asked. When the last time you thought about suicide was– if ever, other screening questions towards the end include if you have any issues with intimacy and.