and that will make the expense more affordable for you…Betterhelp.Copm… total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better help offers both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four alternatives 3 truly to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s definitely helpful for some people who are possibly a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and after that you wait for your therapist to join and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper

sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and extremely available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of draws especially considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp.Copm

or talking or messaging during a session pictures are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so

Talking Betterhelp.Copm…better help is one service as our other online companies I was pointing out previously that there are things that I personally believe that online treatment is better suited for or offline therapy is more appropriate for and I’ve really I’ve really discussed this in other settings because it is something I feel quite enthusiastic about and I have to state that my opinion has actually been favored by companies like better help in terms of ideally how they how they work with individuals that provide for care so I simply wished to invest a number of minutes talking about my own is my own individual opinion about the important things that are most suitable for offline versus online treatment so in my view I see online therapy as a fantastic place for individuals who are dealing with difficult life transitions for scenarios where they’re experiencing more stress than normal for scenarios where you understand they have a very well-defined concern with stress and anxiety or social stress and anxiety and a treatment like cognitive behavioral therapy which is very structured can can benefit them which treatment because it’s not as interpersonal as others is ideal for online counseling because it includes a lot of homework it involves worksheets it involves discovering particular abilities and techniques so mild milder conditions like mild anxiety mild depression change conditions even PTSD as long as like the individual has actually gotten care initially in other places these are all things that can be dealt with through online counseling you understand think of someone who has a agoraphobia and maybe they connect to a counselor from their home since they can’t leave their house and just just to clarify agoraphobia is a disorder where individuals are truly frightened of being trapped and trapped in a location where they might have an anxiety attack therefore basically they start to limit their activities and limit their activities until many of them can’t leave their home without really feeling substantial distress so if someone like that is at home and they can reach out through their computer system and link to a counselor that’s a great first step is that going to cure them absolutely not because agoraphobia to be effectively treated needs that individual to be able to go outside and to resume typical activities and often that involves a therapist going to their house to help them with that process undoubtedly online counselors are going to be able to do that however could they be the bridge that got that individual who hesitates to leave their home from that initial encouraging approach to counseling where they can in fact have a better life 100% and this is what the space that better help aims to fill with their services my point to this to this specific video and bringing these things

up is that I I want to plainly communicate that anything that I show you is going to be completely from where I stand as a professional psychologist and more notably what I believe is as just a human being on this earth attempting to do the best that I can and so I I won’t tell you that something is appropriate that I don’t think is appropriate I won’t show you that online therapy is the cure-all for whatever since I don’t think that

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