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3.0
Feb 24, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Wellness benefits Unlimited PTO Caring and compassionate coaches

Cons

Coaches are disregarded and unheard. We keep telling management what we need and they do the opposite. Example: (1)we need a cap on how many members we talk to. We are still not capped and often times stuck with talking to 5 ppl at a time with some high risk (2) recently we were broken in pods of 10-11 other coaches. That is the main group for us to now communicate because management believes it was better to split us all up vs allow us access to all of the coaches as before. This is absolutely ridiculous. (3) Our pay is extremely low for the work we do. They keep quoting industry standard and not considering the cost of living. (4) We are burnt out and burning out. Weekly coaches are resigning, going part time or relief. Mgmt doesn’t seem to care because they’ll just hire a replacement. We love what we do and yet mgmt decisions are driving major compassion fatigue in all of us.

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Ginger Response
4y
Thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re sorry to hear all of the concerns you’ve outlined, and in particular, your comments on listening and empathy. This is critical to our success as an organization, in alignment with our value of cultivating compassion. We recently fielded a comprehensive survey of our coaches to understand key pain points and come up with solutions. In addition, we solicit feedback from coaches through meetings and 1:1s on a weekly basis. We’ve heard tremendously helpful ideas from coaches, and are working to implement many of these now. One of the changes we’re making involves moving to a new system of pods, to create more consistency when it comes to management and supervision, to improve our approach to training, as well as to create a greater sense of cohesion among coaches. This change, like all changes, will include some bumps in the road, as we work to improve everything from our meeting schedule to our communication tools. We appreciate that change can be difficult, and we want to partner with you, and all of our coaches, to ensure that we learn together over time. Regarding coaching volume, this is a top priority for our business operations team and our leadership, to ensure that we have a durable and sustainable model moving forward. We are in the midst of rolling out many different initiatives to ensure we are accurately understanding demand patterns and staffing appropriately. These include building in a hard cap on the number of consultations coaches do within a period of time, as well as considering other ways to allow coaches to have more predictability in their workday. If you believe your load is higher than it should be, please talk directly with your manager or other member of Coaching Leadership. Our goal is to ensure that we have good visibility into the day-to-day experience of coaches, but our data, like all data, may not always reflect a coach's unique or complete experience. For this reason, we partner closely with coaches to ensure we can identify specific and targeted fixes, as needed. In terms of compensation, we partner with external consultants to get up-to-date market data, which is key for us in making determinations about pay--for coaches as well as other staff. The virtual care market changes quickly, so we regularly evaluate our compensation package to ensure that it is competitive. Recent improvements include an increase in our 401k match, as well as a generous wellness stipend. We would love to be able to discuss your feedback further, and encourage you to reach out to your manager or another member of our Care leadership team. In the meantime, if you haven't already, we highly encourage you to complete the survey we sent to all coaches a few weeks ago (week of Jan. 31), so that we can understand the causes of stress that are most impactful for you. A major focus right now is gathering more accurate data about coach experience, given that there is so much variability, and we hear positive feedback on a regular basis. This survey will enable us to have a deep and nuanced understanding of the coach experience, including yours. So far we’ve had an excellent response rate to the survey, which will close soon. If you haven’t yet completed it, please do. Thank you again for your feedback.

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Cons

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3.0
Jan 8, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is what you make of it. There's a caring clinical team. Clinical office hours are optional but I recommend going to have support. As of late there has been some turn-over as the company is growing, but it seems good people are still there.

Cons

Lack of communication with the management. There are many things I want to give four stars for the clinical team, but I can't due to management. They tell clients one thing (that they have unlimited sessions) and they tell clinicians another (we want to have clients gone in 18 sessions or less.) They also have constant great ideas about how everyone can work together as a team for clients, but it's clear their priorities are elsewhere as these ideas never come to pass. Management is now focused on getting as many clients in and out as possible for the new batch of clients. Also know that you are rated by clients at the end of each session with a five star rating. You may not ever hear about this.If you get below a 4.8 they may consider letting you go as a contractor, especially if you are licensed in a state like CA, where it's harder to hire contractors due to worker's rights. As far as the rating, when you're a clinician working with people who may be literally going through the most difficult times in their lives it's virtually impossible to get a five star rating nearly every time. Therapists aren't Uber drivers. But, if you can tolerate these things it's worth it to have a steady flow of clients and a supportive team even though you're getting paid half of what you would doing it privately.

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Ginger Response
5y
Thank you for your thoughtful feedback. This is invaluable to us, as we know we can't solve the supply/demand imbalance in mental healthcare without a focus on an excellent experience for our members and clinicians alike, and that includes ensuring that clinicians have a direct line of communication to management. We understand your frustration with our approach to star ratings. While this is critical to help us continue to measure member satisfaction as we grow, we use this as only one measure of success and recognize that member ratings of clinical care can be misleading at times. We’re working to continue to improve how we collect and use this data for quality assurance and better outcomes. Thank you, again, for this feedback!
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