and that will make the cost cheaper for you…Josh Briley Betterhelp… general and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid uses both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to know that all four options 3 actually to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy 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 then you wait on your counselor to join and they will link 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 during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably 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 much deeper

sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish 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 counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist but 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 cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really available and very practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Josh Briley Betterhelp

or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures 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 picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so

Talking Josh Briley Betterhelp…better help is one option as our other online companies I was discussing earlier that there are things that I personally think that online therapy is better for or offline treatment is more appropriate for and I’ve really I’ve in fact discussed this in other settings because it is something I feel quite enthusiastic about and I have to say that my opinion has actually been favored by companies like better help in regards to ideally how they how they deal with the people that present for care so I simply wished to spend a couple of minutes discussing my own is my own individual viewpoint about the important things that are most appropriate for offline versus online therapy so in my view I see online treatment as a wonderful location for people who are battling with challenging life transitions for circumstances where they’re experiencing more stress than normal for scenarios where you know they have a very specific concern with stress and anxiety or social anxiety and a treatment like cognitive behavioral therapy which is extremely structured can can benefit them and that treatment because it’s not as interpersonal as others is best for online counseling because it includes a great deal of homework it involves worksheets it includes learning specific skills and strategies so moderate milder conditions like mild stress and anxiety mild depression adjustment disorders even PTSD as long as like the individual has gotten care initially somewhere else these are all things that can be attended to through online counseling you understand consider someone who has a agoraphobia and perhaps they reach out to a therapist from their home due to the fact that they can’t leave their home and simply just to clarify agoraphobia is a disorder where people are actually frightened of being caught and trapped in a location where they may have an anxiety attack therefore essentially they begin to limit their activities and limit their activities till many of them can’t leave their house without really feeling considerable distress so if someone like that is at home and they can reach out through their computer system and connect to a therapist that’s a terrific first step is that going to treat them absolutely not because agoraphobia to be effectively dealt with needs that individual to be able to go outside and to resume typical activities and sometimes that includes a therapist going to their home to help them with that procedure obviously online counselors are going to be able to do that however could they be the bridge that got that person who hesitates to leave their house from that initial helpful approach to counseling where they can in fact have a better life 100% and this is what the gap that better help aims to fill with their services my indicate this to this particular video and bringing these things

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

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