Paying yourself Sponsored
20% off your first month
Sessions by video, phone or chat with a licensed therapist. BetterHelp lists $70 to $100 a week, and you can cancel any time. Its therapists don't prescribe medication.
Insurance or Medicare Sponsored
Bills your plan: Medicare and most major insurers, including Aetna, Anthem, Cigna and UnitedHealthcare. You get a cost estimate before your first visit, and it offers medication management too.
Medicaid
Your plan decides who you can see. Call the member services number on your card and ask for therapists with video visits, or ask a community health center, which works with your state's Medicaid program, about counseling.
Find a community health centerIn crisis? Call or text 988, any time.
Compare providers
Independent reviews from the Black Health editorial team.
Talkspace offers therapy and psychiatry on one platform and takes most major insurance, plus Medicare for therapy. It says most insured members have a $0 copay. It doesn't take Medicaid, and it doesn't match you by a therapist's race.
Read the review →Brightside offers psychiatry, therapy, or both, plus a Suicide Prevention Program for adults with elevated suicide risk. It takes most major insurance and some Medicare and Medicaid plans.
Read the review →BetterHelp lets you check "Black therapist" as a preference when you sign up, but that is a request, not a guarantee. You can message your therapist anytime and switch with a click. It takes some insurance. Its therapists don't prescribe medication.
Read the review →Hims Mental Health is an online prescription service for men with anxiety or depression. A licensed provider can prescribe generics like sertraline or bupropion, from $49 a month. It isn't therapy, and it doesn't take insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid.
Read the review →Cerebral offers therapy and medication management on one platform and takes some insurance. In 2024 it agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle FTC charges over health-data sharing and cancellations, and it settled a federal investigation into its controlled-substance prescribing.
Read the review →Find it in your state
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