which will make the cost less expensive for you…Betterhelp Logo Vector… general and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better aid provides both types of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all four alternatives 3 really to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s certainly good for some individuals who are possibly a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 wait for your therapist to join and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist 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 more affordable rate so let’s proceed 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 and that makes it extremely accessible and very practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call 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 tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws especially thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Logo Vector

or talking or messaging throughout a session photos are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so

Talking Betterhelp Logo Vector…better help is one service as our other online companies I was discussing previously that there are things that I personally think that online therapy is better suited for or offline treatment is better for and I’ve in fact I’ve in fact spoken about this in other settings due to the fact that it is something I feel pretty enthusiastic about and I need to say that my viewpoint has actually been favored by business like better help in regards to hopefully how they how they work with individuals that present for care so I just wanted to invest a number of minutes discussing my own is my own personal opinion about the important things that are most appropriate for offline versus online therapy so in my view I see online therapy as a wonderful location for people who are battling with challenging life shifts for circumstances where they’re experiencing more tension than regular for circumstances where you understand they have a really precise issue with stress and anxiety or social anxiety and a treatment like cognitive behavior modification which is really structured can can benefit them and that therapy since it’s not as social as others is ideal for online counseling due to the fact that it involves a great deal of research it includes worksheets it involves discovering particular skills and techniques so mild milder conditions like mild anxiety mild depression adjustment conditions even PTSD as long as like the individual has actually gotten care at first elsewhere these are all things that can be resolved through online therapy you understand think about somebody who has a agoraphobia and perhaps they reach out to a counselor from their house due to the fact that they can’t leave their house and just simply to clarify agoraphobia is a disorder where people are really horrified of being caught and caught in a location where they may have an anxiety attack therefore basically they start to limit their activities and limit their activities until much of them can’t leave their house without really feeling significant distress so if somebody like that is at home and they can connect through their computer and link to a therapist that’s a terrific first step is that going to treat them never because agoraphobia to be effectively dealt with needs that individual to be able to go outdoors and to resume typical activities and sometimes that includes a therapist going to their house to help them with that process undoubtedly online counselors are going to have the ability to do that but might they be the bridge that got that person who hesitates to leave their house from that initial encouraging method to counseling where they can actually have a better life 100% and this is what the space that better help intends to fill with their services my point to this to this specific video and bringing these things

up is that I I wish to clearly interact 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 simply a human being on this earth trying to do the very best that I can therefore I I won’t inform you that something is appropriate that I do not believe is appropriate I will not share with you that online therapy is the cure-all for everything because I don’t think that

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