and that will make the cost more affordable for you…Jeri Marshall Betterhelp… total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously 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 think that better aid uses both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with 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 phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four alternatives three truly to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s certainly great for some people who are possibly a little bit more worried 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 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 join 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 start having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 attend to 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 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 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 believe one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really convenient and really accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different 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 established they send you both email tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of draws specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Jeri Marshall Betterhelp

or chatting or messaging throughout 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 individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so

Talking Jeri Marshall Betterhelp…better help is one option as our other online business I was mentioning earlier that there are things that I personally believe that online treatment is more appropriate for or offline therapy is better for and I’ve really 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 popular by business like better help in terms of hopefully how they how they deal with individuals that provide for care so I simply wanted to spend a couple of minutes discussing my own is my own individual viewpoint about the things that are most proper for online versus offline therapy so in my view I see online treatment as a wonderful location for people who are struggling with hard life transitions for circumstances where they’re experiencing more stress than normal for scenarios where you know they have an extremely specific concern with anxiety or social stress and anxiety and a treatment like cognitive behavior modification which is extremely structured can can benefit them and that therapy since it’s not as interpersonal as others is best for online therapy since it involves a lot of homework it involves worksheets it involves finding out particular abilities and techniques so mild milder disorders like mild anxiety mild depression adjustment conditions even PTSD as long as like the person has actually received care initially somewhere else these are all things that can be addressed through online therapy you understand think of someone who has a agoraphobia and perhaps they connect to a counselor from their home because they can’t leave their house and just just to clarify agoraphobia is a condition where individuals are truly terrified of being caught and caught in a location where they may have an anxiety attack and so basically they begin to restrict their activities and restrict their activities up until a number of them can’t leave their home without truly feeling significant distress so if somebody like that is at home and they can connect through their computer and link to a counselor that’s a fantastic initial step is that going to treat them never due to the fact that agoraphobia to be effectively dealt with requirements that person to be able to go outdoors and to resume regular activities and sometimes that involves a therapist going to their house to help them with that process certainly online therapists are going to be able to do that but could they be the bridge that got that individual who hesitates to leave their house from that initial helpful approach 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 indicate this to this specific video and bringing these things

up is that I I want to clearly interact that anything that I show you is going to be totally from where I stand as an expert psychologist and more notably what I believe is as simply a human being on this earth attempting to do the best that I can and so I I won’t inform you that something is appropriate that I don’t think is appropriate I will not show you that online therapy is the cure-all for whatever due to the fact that I do not think that

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