What is Regain Couples Therapy, is Regain good?
Regain is a rebranding strategy of BetterHelp. Think of BetterHelp as the Uber of Mental Health, and Regain as UberEats. Regain is the exact same platform as BetterHelp, but redesigned to advertise toward the now booming couples therapy market.
If you know how unhappy gig-economy workers are, then you can imagine how unhappy licensed therapists are in working with BetterHelp and Regain. But the quality of a bad food delivery from a resentful driver is less harmful than the quality of mental health from an underpaid therapist who spent years to obtain their license.
What’s worse for the consumer, is that Regain only expects the therapist to utilize CBT to address couples concerns. CBT is not a couples therapy modality; there are numerous, well-researched couples therapy approaches that Regain customers will not be paying for. Approaches like Gottman Method, Imago Relationship Therapy and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy.
Regain uses CBT because they can easily monitor minor surface level progression on paper, keeping track of arbitrary ratings on a scale that they expect customers to provide, they are not interested in providing the best couples therapy available.
