which will make the expense cheaper for you…Betterhelp Labib Chr… general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that better help provides both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four choices 3 actually to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s certainly great for some people who are perhaps a little bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the web 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 await your counselor to sign up with and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and then 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 wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist but 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 ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really practical and extremely accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of 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 use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of sucks particularly thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Labib Chr

or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so

Talking Betterhelp Labib Chr…better help is one option as our other online companies I was pointing out earlier that there are things that I personally think that online therapy is better suited for or offline therapy is better for and I’ve in fact I’ve really discussed this in other settings since it is something I feel pretty enthusiastic about and I need to state that my opinion has been favored by business like better help in terms of hopefully how they how they work with the people that provide for care so I simply wished to invest a couple of minutes speaking about my own is my own personal opinion about the important things that are most suitable for offline versus online treatment so in my view I see online therapy as a terrific place for people who are fighting with hard life transitions for circumstances where they’re experiencing more stress than regular for scenarios where you understand they have an extremely precise problem with anxiety or social anxiety and a treatment like cognitive behavior modification which is very structured can can benefit them and that treatment because it’s not as social as others is best for online therapy due to the fact that it includes a great deal of homework it involves worksheets it includes finding out specific skills and methods so mild milder disorders like moderate anxiety mild depression change disorders even PTSD as long as like the person has actually received care at first elsewhere these are all things that can be attended to through online counseling you understand think of someone who has a agoraphobia and possibly they reach out to a therapist from their house because they can’t leave their home and simply simply to clarify agoraphobia is a condition where individuals are actually horrified of being trapped and trapped in a location where they may have a panic attack and so basically they begin to restrict their activities and limit their activities up until many of them can’t leave their home without actually feeling considerable distress so if someone like that is at house and they can reach out through their computer system and link to a therapist that’s a great first step is that going to treat them absolutely not due to the fact that agoraphobia to be successfully dealt with needs that individual to be able to go outside and to resume typical activities and sometimes that includes a therapist going to their house to help them with that procedure undoubtedly online counselors are going to be able to do that but might they be the bridge that got that individual who hesitates to leave their house from that initial helpful approach to therapy where they can in fact have a better life 100% and this is what the gap that better help intends to fill with their services my indicate this to this specific video and bringing these things

up is that I I wish to plainly communicate that anything that I share with you is going to be totally from where I stand as an expert psychologist and more significantly what I think is as just a human being on this earth attempting to do the best that I can and so I I will not tell you that something is appropriate that I don’t think is appropriate I won’t share with you that online therapy is the cure-all for whatever since I do not believe that

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