and that will make the expense more affordable for you…Mykie Betterhelp… general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better aid uses both types of psychological health professionals so just 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 very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 options three really to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more anxious 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 web 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 therapist 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably 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 discuss your issues 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 however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by counselor 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 ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely accessible and really practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text reminders 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 effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already 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 type of draws particularly thinking about that better aid 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 indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Mykie Betterhelp

or messaging or talking during a session images are shared really 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 need to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image 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 do not send it actually creates a line break so

Talking Mykie Betterhelp…better help is one option as our other online business I was discussing earlier that there are things that I personally think that online treatment is more appropriate for or offline treatment is better for and I’ve actually I’ve actually discussed this in other settings due to the fact that it is something I feel quite enthusiastic about and I have to say that my viewpoint has been well-received by business like better help in terms of hopefully how they how they work with the people that provide for care so I just wanted to spend a number of minutes talking about my own is my own individual viewpoint about the important things that are most appropriate for offline versus online treatment so in my view I see online treatment as a wonderful place for individuals who are struggling with challenging life shifts for scenarios where they’re experiencing more stress than normal for scenarios where you know they have a very well-defined issue with anxiety or social stress and anxiety and a treatment like cognitive behavioral therapy which is really structured can can benefit them which therapy because it’s not as interpersonal as others is ideal for online therapy because it includes a great deal of homework it involves worksheets it includes finding out particular skills and techniques so moderate milder conditions like moderate stress and anxiety mild depression modification conditions even PTSD as long as like the individual has received care initially in other places these are all things that can be resolved through online therapy you know think about somebody who has a agoraphobia and maybe they connect to a counselor from their home because they can’t leave their house and simply just to clarify agoraphobia is a condition where people are truly frightened of being trapped and caught in a location where they might have an anxiety attack therefore basically they begin to limit their activities and limit their activities until a lot of them can’t leave their house without actually feeling significant distress so if somebody like that is at home and they can connect through their computer and connect to a counselor that’s a fantastic initial step is that going to treat them absolutely not because agoraphobia to be successfully treated requirements that individual to be able to go outside and to resume regular activities and often that involves a therapist going to their home to help them with that process certainly online counselors are going to have the ability to do that however could they be the bridge that got that individual who’s afraid to leave their house from that initial supportive technique to counseling where they can really 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 wish to plainly communicate that anything that I share with you is going to be totally from where I stand as a professional psychologist and more significantly what I think is as just a human being on this earth trying to do the very best that I can and so I I will not inform you that something is appropriate that I do not believe is appropriate I won’t show you that online counseling is the cure-all for whatever because I do not believe that

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