LivePerson, Inc, which recently purchased an online counseling service called Kasamba, is the largest online counseling service in the world. It offers professional counseling via chat, email, or phone. It currently has 152 professional counselors and an average of 17 are online at any given time during the day. The average chat price per minute to speak with a counselor is about $1.45 per minute with some counselors charging as little as $0.75 per minute and some counselors charging as much as $1.89 per minute. Given the average price of $1.45 per minute, a 30-minute session could be conducted for $43.50. LivePerson does not offer quantity discounts in the pricing structure, but it might be possible to request a price reduction on an individual basis from your counselor. Counselors are free to negotiate the price of emails on an per-email basis. You can also have the option of letting counselors compete with each other to respond to your email, which will ensure you can get the lowest price response to your questions.

LivePerson uses an advanced online chat tool that enables you to view words in real-time as they are being typed by participants and online counselors. It has the most advanced chat tool of any online counseling service and is clearly a pioneer in the field of online counseling. LivePerson does not offer video chat services through its chat application at this time. LivePerson also verifies the academic credentials of all of its counselors before they are approved and posted to the online counseling service. Its counselors have recevied degrees from schools all over the world.

LivePerson's online counseling service does not accept health insurance, but it provides real-time, affordable responses to your concerns. Each online session begins with a free chat session, where you can share your thoughts with an online counselor for about 3 to 5 minutes. During the initial part of the online counseling session, you will have the option to hire the counselor with the click of a button. Before entering the online counseling session, you will be required to enter your credit card information. After that it is stored in the system and you can automatically jump to an online counseling session after that.

In summary, with nearly half a million unique monthly visitors to LivePerson's service is clearly the top online counseling service provider in the world. Its technology is outstanding, its online counselors are accredited, and its prices are fair. If you would like to sign up to start a online counseling session, Click Here Now!


Ingenio

Ingenio is owned by one of the largest communication companies in the world, AT&T. Ingenio offers live advice via phone only. It currently has 86 counselors and an average of 16 are online at any given time during the day. The average chat price per minute to speak with a counselor is about $1.74 per minute with some counselors charging as little as $0.90 per minute and some counselors charging as much as $3.50 per minute.

Ingenio does not offer counseling by chat or email, but instead only offers counseling by phone. Counseling sessions begin by receiving a call from Ingenio. Shortly after that, Ingenio calls the counselor and connects you to the counselor to begin your session. Ingenio does not appear to verify its counselors as LivePerson does, but the calipher of its counselors appear to be similar to LivePerson's counselors and you will notice that Ingenio staffs some of the same counselors as LivePerson.

Ingenio ranks second to LivePerson with about 160,000 unique visitors to its service per month. If you would like to sign up for a counseling session by phone, Click here now.




Ask The Internet Therapist

Internet Therapist, LLC is a company founded by Jeff Gazley, a licensed counselor. His website, AskTheInternetTherapist.com ranks a distant third in the Internet's list of online counselors with only 14,000 unique visitors to its service per month.

It currently has a counselor count of 33 counselors, but the counselors are not available immediately. Instead, after you register, you have the option of selecting an appointment on the counselor's calendar. The online counseling sessions can be conducted via video chat, chat, or email. It is the only service of the top three to offer bulk counseling sessions, i.e., counseling services that are not by the minute. It assigns its counselors into two categories - Group 1 and Group 2. Group 1 counselors charge $40 per session and Group 2 charge $60 per 30 minute session. It also sells self-help books and tapes online. They also offer online DUI counseling that fulfills court-mandated requirements.

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