which will make the expense less expensive for you…Boogie Betterhelp Con… general and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better aid provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply 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 first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four options three actually to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because 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 then you wait for your counselor to sign up with 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting 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 discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent 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 believe one of the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely practical and extremely accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay 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 kind of draws specifically thinking about that better aid 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 imply i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Boogie Betterhelp Con

or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared very oddly 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 have to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so

Talking Boogie Betterhelp Con…better help is one solution as our other online companies I was discussing earlier that there are things that I personally believe that online therapy is better for or offline therapy is better suited for and I’ve really I’ve actually discussed this in other settings since it is something I feel pretty passionate about and I need to state that my opinion has been well-received 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 spend a couple of minutes talking about my own is my own individual viewpoint about the important things that are most appropriate for online versus offline therapy so in my view I see online treatment as a terrific place for individuals who are fighting with difficult life transitions for scenarios where they’re experiencing more stress than typical for situations where you know they have an extremely specific concern with anxiety or social stress and anxiety and a treatment like cognitive behavioral therapy which is really structured can can benefit them and that treatment since it’s not as interpersonal as others is perfect for online therapy due to the fact that it involves a great deal of research it involves worksheets it includes learning particular abilities and techniques so mild milder disorders like mild stress and anxiety mild depression modification conditions even PTSD as long as like the person has gotten care initially in other places these are all things that can be addressed through online therapy you understand think about someone who has a agoraphobia and maybe they connect to a counselor from their home since they can’t leave their home and simply simply to clarify agoraphobia is a condition where individuals are actually frightened of being trapped and caught in a location where they may have an anxiety attack and so essentially they begin to restrict their activities and restrict their activities till a number of them can’t leave their house without actually feeling significant distress so if someone like that is at house and they can reach out through their computer system and link to a counselor that’s an excellent primary step is that going to treat them absolutely not since agoraphobia to be effectively dealt with needs that person to be able to go outdoors and to resume typical activities and sometimes that involves a therapist going to their home to help them with that process clearly online therapists are going to be able to do that but might they be the bridge that got that person who’s afraid to leave their home from that preliminary encouraging approach to counseling where they can in fact have a better life 100% and this is what the space that better help intends to fill with their services my indicate this to this particular video and bringing these things

up is that I I want to clearly communicate that anything that I show you is going to be totally from where I stand as a professional psychologist and more notably what I think is as simply a human being on this earth trying to do the best that I can and so I I won’t tell you that something is appropriate that I don’t believe is appropriate I won’t share with you that online counseling is the cure-all for whatever because I don’t think that

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