Work with April Poolson (LPC) - BetterHelp Online Therapist

April has been absolutely wonderful. She listens with genuine care, offers thoughtful guidance, goes beyond what is expected with tips to help me move forward and has helped me understand myself in ways I never expected. I always leave our sessions feeling lighter, supported, and more hopeful. Truly grateful for her.

Written on Nov 20, 2025 after therapy with April for 1 year and 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, grief, self esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue

April is extremely kind and compassionate. She is a fantastic listener and an amazing therapist. So glad I found her!

Written on Oct 06, 2025 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, and self esteem

April has been a huge help for me to sort through my thoughts and provides guidance and tools to help me make sense of my situation, I highly recommend,
She responds in a timely manner where possible.

Written on Sep 30, 2025 after therapy with April for 1 month on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, self esteem, anger management, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue

What's to say,,,she rocks at what she does!! She helped me in everything I needed it. Made me feel calm and was easy to talk with.

Written on Sep 25, 2025 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, and anger management

April has been extremely helpful during a difficult period in my life. She’s helped me navigate conversations, come to understand dynamics of relationships, and help educate me on several practices that help me. She’s very responsive and provides many great resources.

Written on Aug 29, 2025 after therapy with April for 5 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, self esteem, and compassion fatigue

April has helped me find different ways to work on my self by catering different methods that suit my learning habits. She is very kind, respectful and understanding. April made me feel very comfortable from the very beginning even when i was reserved as i never have done therapy before. I cant thank April enough.

Written on Aug 27, 2025 after therapy with April for 9 months on issues concerning depression, and relationship issues

April is truly the best! Not only is she kind and caring, but she’s also patient and understanding. We’ve worked together for I believe over 2 years now and I couldn’t be more grateful. She’s gotten me out of some of the toughest times in my life and she has carefully re-guided me back to my true self every time I’ve gotten lost along the way. I’d recommend her to absolutely anyone & everyone!

Written on Jun 25, 2025 after therapy with April for 2 years and 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, and self esteem

I have only had one session so I will update later I like her so far listens well and supports my feelings

Written on Jun 07, 2025 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, and adhd

April is very knowledgeable and always sending me tools to help me with my goals. She’s very understanding and approachable.

Written on Jun 05, 2025 after therapy with April for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, eating disorders, self esteem, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and adhd

Great listener and helper

Written on May 20, 2025 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, relationship issues, grief, self esteem, and bipolar disorder

She’s simply awesome!!

Written on May 09, 2025 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, self esteem, career difficulties, coaching, and adhd

April is very kind, attentive, and caring! Best of all she is patient and puts no pressure on her clients! She truly helps you get to the root of your problems and actively helps you find solutions that will work best for you! Highly recommend!

Written on May 04, 2025 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and self esteem

Best therapist I’ve ever had, and I’ve worked with a few. I’ve made more progress with April than anyone else I’ve worked with.

Written on Apr 22, 2025 after therapy with April for 4 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, and relationship issues

I love my therapist! She is respectful, listens, is caring and asks great questions to dive deep for me when I’m explaining my struggles. She allows me to talk about the past and how to navigate certain emotions in the future.

Written on Apr 16, 2025 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, family conflicts, self esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes

Simply put, April is the best.

Written on Jan 26, 2025 after therapy with April for 2 months on issues concerning depression, grief, sleeping disorders, self esteem, anger management, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue

She always answer her messages as soon as possible most time less than 24 hours. Video conference is great. She communicates well and listen, actually really carefully.

Written on Jan 24, 2025 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, and self esteem

I find that April listens very well and challenges when necessary. I personally find very helpful the reminders we keep active across all sessions and I really like when she refers to matters we spoke on other sessions, it makes me feel safe and confident in her listening.

Written on Dec 20, 2024 after therapy with April for 3 months on issues concerning depression, trauma and abuse, and self esteem

I would highly recommend April. She made me feel very comfortable with sharing my thoughts and feelings. She listens to me and uses an insightful approach to help me gain clarity and insight into my challenges. In addition, she guides and helps me use tools and strategies to manage my daily life situations. As a result, I feel more empowered and optimistic!

Written on Dec 03, 2024 after therapy with April for 2 months on issues concerning depression, relationship issues, and grief

April has been absolutely amazing. I’ve struggled finding a therapist for several years and since I began speaking with Miss April, I can honestly say that she has helped me battle through my depression. Our sessions feel very personalized and I don’t ever get the feeling she is sending me “generic” tools. They are relevant to what we speak about in each session and I find them very helpful. She always helps me get the conversation going when I struggle to start during our sessions and I feel she does a great job listening and helping me feel supported. I highly recommend April.

Written on Nov 26, 2024 after therapy with April for 3 months on issues concerning depression, and relationship issues

A true professional

Written on Nov 08, 2024 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning addictions, relationship issues, and grief

April is a good therapist, I appreciate the exercises and prompts April has been persistent with the most positive energy.

Written on Oct 23, 2024 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning trauma and abuse, self esteem, and anger management

April is simply the best. I'm so grateful for her!

Written on Oct 10, 2024 after therapy with April for 5 months

April via BetterHelp has helped me more than I can put into words. I’m very grateful to April and recommend the platform all the time to friends.

Written on May 05, 2024 after therapy with April for 1 year and 5 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, eating disorders, self esteem, and coaching

Ms April is great. She helped me in identification of pointers en-route to problem solving a void in my life. She has been a good listener.

Written on Apr 30, 2024 after therapy with April for 4 months on issues concerning grief, and self esteem

April is amazing. She always listens to me and helps work through things I don’t understand. She validates me and has helped me so much already!

Written on Mar 22, 2024 after therapy with April for 1 month on issues concerning stress, anxiety

She’s amazing!

Written on Mar 20, 2024 after therapy with April for 9 months on issues concerning depression, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting issues, self esteem, anger management, coping with life changes, and adhd

Listens well and gives great feedback! very understanding and non judgmental

Written on Mar 19, 2024 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and self esteem

Very good listener, challenges you as well!

Written on Mar 17, 2024 after therapy with April for 3 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, self esteem, and coping with life changes

Dr Poolson has been excellent to talk to. She challenges my views in a caring way and has helped me start to develop confidence and care of self. I’m starting to feel like I can live my life and anxiety is not living it for me.

Written on Mar 11, 2024 after therapy with April for 8 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self esteem, and coping with life changes

I love April! She provides relevant advice for specific situations we talk about and I always leave a session with a new outlook. I’ve found that a lot of times I know what the right answer is but she really helps me work through things out loud. She’s helped me through some significant life transitions and I’m grateful for that support.

Written on Feb 29, 2024 after therapy with April for 4 months on issues concerning depression, self esteem, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes

April is incredibly professional and knowledgeable. She is very empathetic and genuinely makes an effort to work with me through my problems in ways that I am comfortable with and find helpful. I am hesitant to write a good review for her because she is without a doubt, my favorite therapist I have ever had and I want to be able to easily get an appointment. She is truly great though and I would recommend her to anyone. She is fantastic at her job. I am just coming back to therapy due to some money problems, the deciding factor to come back to Better Help instead of going anywhere else was that I can work with April here.

Written on Jan 31, 2024 after therapy with April for 1 year and 6 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, and grief

April has been a big help in getting me through a very tough time in my life. She is thoughtful and genuine and has done a great job so far. Highly recommended.

Written on Jan 29, 2024 after therapy with April for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, and family conflicts

April is amazing. She really has a in-depth knowledge of her craft and was extremely helpful in my journey in trying to feeling better / solving/ understanding myself/ thoughts/ emotions/ experiences/ human nature etc. She is also extremely friendly, caring and overall a great person. 10/10.

Written on Jan 12, 2024 after therapy with April for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, self esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes

A nice person who is trying to help me. Has introduced me to way and ideas to help me help myself.

Written on Jan 11, 2024 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, grief, and coping with life changes

April is a very kind, patient and insightful therapist. She listens very carefully and is very supportive of me. She helps me feel validated and asks great questions to help me start thinking about how to improve myself. She is very knowledgeable and shares great resources to help me in between our sessions. I highly recommend April!

Written on Jan 03, 2024 after therapy with April for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, sleeping disorders, and self esteem

April is hands-down the best therapist I’ve ever worked with!

Written on Dec 28, 2023 after therapy with April for 9 months on issues concerning relationship issues, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues

A great listener and a great person I Highly recommend her for anybody looking for a therapist!!

Written on Nov 18, 2023 after therapy with April for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, and self esteem

I’ve had two sessions with April and looking forward to the third. The first session that we had I knew she was the therapist that I was looking for. I am looking forward to future sessions with her as she has been very helpful with my issues and has given me a lot of insight and information.

Written on Nov 12, 2023 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, family conflicts, and parenting issues

Im incredibly grateful to have found April through BetterHelp. I relocated and my therapist I had been working with for some time was no longer an option, I was hesitant to begin working with a new therapist but it was clear very quickly that April was a great fit. She’s helped me work through what has likely been one of the toughest seasons of my life thus far and navigate an unhealthy relationship and removing myself from the situation with a level of compassion and gentleness that ensured I felt supported and never judged. Not sure I could’ve navigated this season without her support.

Written on Oct 12, 2023 after therapy with April for 5 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and self esteem

Always very attentive and a good listener. She was always actively sending useful recommendations on relevant books or other or listening when needed, would fully recommend having her as your therapist!

Written on Sep 30, 2023 after therapy with April for 2 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, self esteem, and adhd

She was amazing and helped me in more ways than I can count. Super receptive and helped me understand myself and grow as a person. Would recommend to anyone who wants to better themselves.

Written on Jul 11, 2023 after therapy with April for 1 month on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, sleeping disorders, anger management, coping with life changes, and adhd

April has been helping me work through a real tough time in my life and possibly divorce. I always look forward to our sessions and she make me feel better while offering strong support.

Written on Apr 17, 2023 after therapy with April for 11 months on issues concerning relationship issues, family conflicts, and coping with life changes

I love working with April she’s really gets me and helps me understand my life in ways I’ve not seen. I’m a year sober with her help

Written on Apr 03, 2023 after therapy with April for 1 year and 3 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, family conflicts, and intimacy-related issues

Dr April Poolson has been an amazing therapist. She is always professional, conscientious, and uplifting. Her empathetic nature makes it really easy to talk to her about a wide variety of subjects. I highly recommend her!

Written on Apr 03, 2023 after therapy with April for 4 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting issues, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue

April is amazing! If you like solution based therapy and someone who really makes you feel heard, April is the therapist for you.

This was my first experience and was extremely pleased with session. Would definitely recommend.

Written on Mar 23, 2023 after therapy with April for 3 weeks on issues concerning relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, and anger management

I’ve been going to April for over a year and finds her extremely helpful and supportive in my healing journey. I am impressed with her expertise as well as grateful to have her listen to me and guiding me towards my goals. April made a positive difference in my life. Thank you!

Written on Feb 28, 2023 after therapy with April for 1 year and 2 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, and intimacy-related issues

April is calm and compassionate. She had a lot of good resources for me and the worksheets she utilized were very helpful.

Written on Feb 15, 2023 after therapy with April for 3 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, parenting issues, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue

I sought for support with BetterHelp during a tough personal time. April was the first therapist offered by the service as we got along very well from the start.

April listen carefully, identifies possible problems and gives solutions with advice and practical exercises.

She is also a great person to maintain conversation with. And someday you just need someone to talk to and discuss your issues.

I’m super grateful to have a chance working with April. Thanks to her therapy my anxiety went away in two month and now I’m back on track with exiting life and career projects.

Thanks, April and BetterHelp.

Written on Feb 07, 2023 after therapy with April for 3 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, self esteem, career difficulties, and coaching

April is the best! Excellent listener and very solution/goal oriented. I struggled with therapists in the past because they felt a bit too passive. April is much more direct and ultimately helpful. Thank you April!

Written on Feb 06, 2023 after therapy with April for 7 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, self esteem, career difficulties, and adhd

April is patient, helpful, kind and motivating. She is amazing at the work she does and I am very lucky to have her support.

Written on Jan 12, 2023 after therapy with April for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, self esteem, and coaching

It’s only been a few weeks and so far I am happy with my therapist

Written on Jan 12, 2023 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning bipolar disorder, and adhd

April has been very kind and patient with me so far. She has listened and asked questions to better understand my situation. She has also made me comfortable and allowed me to communicate in the way that is best for me.

Written on Dec 26, 2022 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, family conflicts, grief, sleeping disorders, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and adhd

I’ve only had one session with April so far but that was very helpful. She responds as quickly as possible to direct messages and sends additional information to help with the issues. She is very sweet and understands what I am going through. I enjoyed my session with her and looking forward to the next session. Thank you April.

Written on Dec 26, 2022 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety

I’ve only seen April twice, but she’s already given me so many helpful tools and strategies to use when I’m feeling anxious or overwhelmed. She is calm, kind and very attentive to my needs. I can tell that she really knows what she’s doing!

Written on Nov 09, 2022 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, and adhd

April is warm, attentive, and insightful. Her advice got me through an extremely difficult time in my life, and I know that I am more resilient for it. She was a great voice of reason for me when I was unsure of how to cope with disappointment. I can’t recommend her highly enough.

Written on Sep 16, 2022 after therapy with April for 3 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and coping with life changes

i only had a couple session with april , but she was AMAZING !! she really knows what she doing and really listens to you too

Written on Aug 16, 2022 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, and self esteem

I began sessions with April during an extremely low, difficult point in my life. She has been so helpful and supportive and helped guide me through some of my toughest moments. She has given me great resources and tools to use in everyday situations. I am so thankful for her expertise!

Written on Aug 09, 2022 after therapy with April for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, self esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes

April is friendly down to earth and thoughtful. She listens well and doesn’t make me feel like I’m being studied. I love talking to her and I’ve never had a Tharapist I love talking to!

Written on Aug 03, 2022 after therapy with April for 10 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting issues, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and adhd

April has been absolutely brilliant, I have really developed a connection with her over the last 7months! Even within the first few weeks my friends noticed a difference in me and could see that I was finally getting the help for anxiety that I needed. April has been so kind, I have loved our sessions

Written on Jul 24, 2022 after therapy with April for 6 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, self esteem, and coping with life changes

April is absolutely amazing. She has such good techniques that really help me take it into my everyday life.

Written on Jun 14, 2022 after therapy with April for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, grief, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, coping with life changes, coaching, and adhd

April has been absolutely brilliant! She has been professional, listening, and very considerate. She also helped me to get through a difficult time.

Written on Jun 01, 2022 after therapy with April for 4 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and self esteem

April is extremely attentive and kind

Written on May 19, 2022 after therapy with April for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and self esteem

April has really helped me to calm my anxious feelings with tools I never thought to use.

Written on Mar 20, 2022 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, family conflicts, and intimacy-related issues

April has been amazing. She’s very understanding and she will help you challenge yourself, in a healthy and safe place.

Written on Feb 25, 2022 after therapy with April for 4 months on issues concerning depression, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes

I was immediately comfortable with April which allowed me to be vulnerable and share intimate details and issues that are a large cause to my depression. She is empathetic, encouraging, strategic (in that she gives me directives to practice afterward that I am open to and do), and most importantly to me; I receive sincere validation. I would love to continue working with her but know it is for a temporary amount of time due to cost. I value my time with her every week and look forward to our sessions.

Written on Jan 30, 2022 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, addictions, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, self esteem, coping with life changes, and coaching

She is an amazing therapist, and does her best to address my issues and concerns

Written on Jan 29, 2022 after therapy with April for 4 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, and relationship issues

I'm still getting to know April & working through my concerns but so far I get a really great vibe from her & feel she will be a great help.

Written on Jan 06, 2022 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning relationship issues, grief, self esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes

I have been working with April for 3 weeks now and she has already helped me so much. She makes me feel seen and heard, especially when I was going through a tough time.

Written on Dec 15, 2021 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting issues, self esteem, anger management, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, coaching, compassion fatigue, and adhd

Shortly after starting therapy with April I felt a huge change in my feelings and behaviour. I feel listened to and supported, she has influenced my thinking massively and takes such a gentle approach. I would recommend her to people struggling with feeling hopeless as after every session I’m left feeling amazing and seeing results fast.

Written on Oct 27, 2021 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, and coping with life changes

April makes communicating and sessions so easy. She’s prompt with responding. I felt really comfortable speaking to her about my concerns.

Written on Oct 19, 2021 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and self esteem

She is kind. She really listens and shows empathy and interest. As well as gives alternatives or ways to problem solve. I love the worksheets with tips. Writing or putting things down on text it so helpful. She is always prepared and I feel tht she really cares and enjoys her job. I look
Forward to our talks.

Written on Oct 13, 2021 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, family conflicts, self esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue

April Poolson has a great listening ear. She definitely remembers all the details when speaking to her and does a great job connecting emotional anecdotes together!

Written on Oct 11, 2021 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, parenting issues, self esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes

She’s lovely!

Written on Oct 06, 2021 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, career difficulties, and compassion fatigue

April has been helping me immensely. With lots of tools I didn’t know of before as well as showing empathy. Highly recommend her!

Written on Oct 01, 2021 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, sleeping disorders, and parenting issues

She is easy to talk and listen to. Has great ideas and is very understanding of my needs.

Written on Sep 22, 2021 after therapy with April for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, grief, and self esteem

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