which will make the cost cheaper for you…Jessica Kellgren-fozard Betterhelp… overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey 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 necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid provides both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 options three really to me however they say it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable 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 wait on your counselor to sign up with and they will link 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 meeting during 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 want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper

sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then 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 therapist in particular i believe this does vary by counselor however 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very accessible and really convenient for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently 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 kind of draws particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Jessica Kellgren-fozard Betterhelp

or messaging or talking throughout a session photos are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so

Talking Jessica Kellgren-fozard Betterhelp…better help is one solution as our other online business I was pointing out earlier that there are things that I personally believe that online therapy is more appropriate for or offline treatment is better for and I’ve actually I’ve really discussed this in other settings due to the fact that it is something I feel pretty enthusiastic about and I need to say that my opinion has been well-received by companies like better help in terms of ideally how they how they deal with the people that provide for care so I just wanted to spend a number of minutes talking about my own is my own personal opinion about the important things that are most appropriate for online versus offline treatment so in my view I see online therapy as a fantastic location for people who are struggling with challenging life transitions for circumstances where they’re experiencing more tension than normal for circumstances where you know they have a very precise problem with anxiety or social stress and anxiety and a treatment like cognitive behavioral therapy which is really structured can can benefit them which treatment because it’s not as interpersonal as others is best for online therapy due to the fact that it involves a great deal of research it includes worksheets it includes discovering specific abilities and strategies so moderate milder conditions like moderate stress and anxiety mild depression change disorders even PTSD as long as like the individual has received care at first in other places these are all things that can be resolved through online counseling you know think of somebody who has a agoraphobia and perhaps they reach out to a therapist from their home because they can’t leave their house and simply just to clarify agoraphobia is a disorder where people are truly frightened of being trapped and caught in a location where they might have a panic attack therefore essentially they begin to restrict their activities and restrict their activities till many of them can’t leave their home without really feeling significant distress so if someone like that is at house and they can connect through their computer system and link to a counselor that’s a terrific first step is that going to treat them absolutely not because agoraphobia to be successfully dealt with needs that person to be able to go outside and to resume normal activities and in some cases that involves a therapist going to their house to help them with that process clearly online counselors are going to have the ability to do that however could they be the bridge that got that person who hesitates to leave their house from that preliminary helpful method to counseling where they can really have a better life 100% and this is what the gap that better help intends to fill with their services my point to this to this particular video and bringing these things

up is that I I wish to plainly communicate that anything that I show you is going to be totally from where I stand as an expert psychologist and more significantly what I think is as just a human being on this earth trying to do the best that I can and so I I won’t inform you that something is appropriate that I do not think is appropriate I won’t share with you that online therapy is the cure-all for whatever since I don’t believe that

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