and that will make the cost more affordable for you…Community & Support Manager Company Name Betterhelp.Com… overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better assistance provides both kinds of mental health professionals so simply 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 very first official 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 however it is excellent to understand that all four choices three really to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 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 very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences 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 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 wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really convenient and very available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text 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 reminders and text pointers 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 definitely reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of sucks particularly considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering 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 options for screen sharing Community & Support Manager Company Name Betterhelp.Com

or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared very strangely 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 choose the image 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 simply really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so

Talking Community & Support Manager Company Name Betterhelp.Com…better help is one service as our other online business I was discussing 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 really I’ve in fact spoken about this in other settings because it is something I feel quite enthusiastic about and I need to state that my opinion has been popular by companies like better help in terms of hopefully how they how they deal with individuals that present for care so I just wanted to spend a number of minutes discussing my own is my own individual opinion about the important things that are most suitable for online versus offline therapy so in my view I see online therapy as a terrific place for people who are struggling with hard life transitions for circumstances where they’re experiencing more tension than normal for circumstances where you know they have a very specific issue with stress and anxiety or social stress and anxiety and a treatment like cognitive behavioral therapy which is really structured can can benefit them and that therapy since it’s not as interpersonal as others is ideal for online therapy because it involves a great deal of research it includes worksheets it involves learning specific skills and methods so mild milder disorders like moderate anxiety mild depression adjustment disorders even PTSD as long as like the person has received care initially elsewhere these are all things that can be attended to through online counseling you understand think about somebody who has a agoraphobia and possibly they connect to a counselor from their home because they can’t leave their house and just simply to clarify agoraphobia is a condition where people are actually frightened of being caught and trapped in a location where they may have a panic attack and so essentially they start to limit their activities and restrict their activities till a lot 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 and connect to a counselor that’s a fantastic first step is that going to cure them absolutely not due to the fact that agoraphobia to be successfully treated needs that individual to be able to go outside and to resume normal activities and in some cases that includes a therapist going to their home to help them with that process clearly online therapists are going to be able to do that but could they be the bridge that got that individual who’s afraid to leave their home from that preliminary encouraging method 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 share with you is going to be completely from where I stand as a professional psychologist and more importantly what I think is as just a human being on this earth attempting to do the very best that I can therefore I I won’t tell you that something is appropriate that I do not think is appropriate I won’t share with you that online counseling is the cure-all for everything since I don’t think that

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