and that will make the expense less expensive for you…Community & Support Manager Betterhelp.Com… overall 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 therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that better assistance provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four options 3 truly to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s definitely great for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment 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 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 after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper

sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor 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 but 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 think among the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very hassle-free and really accessible for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks particularly considering 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 connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Community & Support Manager Betterhelp.Com

or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared extremely oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so

Talking Community & Support Manager Betterhelp.Com…better help is one solution as our other online business I was discussing previously that there are things that I personally think that online therapy is better suited for or offline treatment is more appropriate for and I’ve actually I’ve actually spoken about this in other settings since it is something I feel quite passionate about and I have to state that my opinion has actually been well-received by companies like better help in regards to hopefully how they how they work with the people that provide for care so I simply wished to spend a number of minutes talking about my own is my own individual opinion about the things that are most proper for offline versus online treatment so in my view I see online treatment as a terrific location for people who are battling with hard life shifts for situations where they’re experiencing more tension than typical for circumstances where you understand they have a very clear-cut issue with anxiety or social stress and anxiety and a treatment like cognitive behavioral therapy which is very structured can can benefit them which therapy since it’s not as social as others is best for online counseling since it includes a great deal of research it involves worksheets it includes learning particular skills and strategies so moderate milder disorders like mild anxiety mild depression adjustment disorders even PTSD as long as like the person has gotten care at first elsewhere these are all things that can be dealt with through online therapy you understand think of someone who has a agoraphobia and possibly they connect to a counselor from their home due to the fact that they can’t leave their home and just simply to clarify agoraphobia is a condition where individuals are really horrified of being caught and caught in a location where they may have a panic attack and so basically they start to restrict their activities and restrict their activities up until many of them can’t leave their house without truly feeling substantial distress so if somebody like that is at home and they can reach out through their computer and connect to a therapist that’s a great first step is that going to cure them never since agoraphobia to be effectively dealt with requirements that individual to be able to go outside and to resume normal activities and often that involves a therapist going to their home to help them with that process obviously online therapists are going to have the ability to do that but might they be the bridge that got that individual who hesitates to leave their house from that initial helpful method to therapy where they can really have a better life 100% and this is what the gap 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 share with you is going to be fully from where I stand as an expert psychologist and more importantly what I believe is as simply a human being on this earth attempting to do the best that I can therefore I I won’t inform you that something is appropriate that I do not think is appropriate I won’t show you that online therapy is the cure-all for whatever due to the fact that I don’t believe that

Community & Support Manager Betterhelp.Com

and so you can always expect to hear my truthful viewpoint on what I think from my own experience and knowledge base as a licensed psychologist I hope you discovered this video fascinating and useful if you did please like it below and feel free to register for our YouTube channel where we’re going to be producing a growing number of videos on a range of various psychological health subjects and please connect if there’s something specific you would like us to cover or deal with in an approaching video