and that will make the cost cheaper for you…Poppy Harlow Betterhelp… overall and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help offers both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all four options 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s certainly great for some individuals who are possibly a bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 await your therapist 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 probably going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very available and extremely practical for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders 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 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 anybody who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of sucks particularly thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Poppy Harlow Betterhelp

or messaging or chatting throughout a session images are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can just 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 person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very 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 Poppy Harlow Betterhelp…better help is one service as our other online companies I was pointing out previously that there are things that I personally think that online treatment is more appropriate for or offline therapy is better for and I’ve actually I’ve actually spoken about this in other settings since it is something I feel quite passionate about and I need to state that my viewpoint has actually been well-received by companies like better help in terms of hopefully how they how they work with individuals that provide for care so I just wanted to spend a number of minutes discussing my own is my own individual viewpoint about the important things that are most suitable for offline versus online therapy so in my view I see online therapy as a wonderful location for people who are struggling with tough life transitions for situations where they’re experiencing more tension than normal for situations where you know they have a very specific concern with stress and anxiety or social stress and anxiety and a treatment like cognitive behavior modification which is very structured can can benefit them and that therapy due to the fact that it’s not as interpersonal as others is perfect for online therapy due to the fact that it includes a lot of homework it involves worksheets it includes learning specific skills and methods so mild milder conditions like mild anxiety mild depression change disorders even PTSD as long as like the person has gotten care at first elsewhere these are all things that can be addressed through online counseling you understand think about somebody who has a agoraphobia and possibly they reach out to a counselor from their house because they can’t leave their home and simply simply to clarify agoraphobia is a condition where people are really frightened of being caught and trapped in a location where they may have a panic attack and so essentially they begin to limit their activities and restrict their activities till a lot of them can’t leave their house without actually feeling considerable distress so if someone like that is at house and they can connect through their computer and link to a counselor that’s a fantastic primary step is that going to treat them absolutely not because agoraphobia to be successfully dealt with requirements that person to be able to go outdoors and to resume typical activities and often 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 however might they be the bridge that got that person who hesitates to leave their home from that initial supportive 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 want to clearly interact that anything that I share with you is going to be totally 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 and so I I will not tell you that something is appropriate that I don’t believe is appropriate I won’t show you that online therapy is the cure-all for whatever due to the fact that I do not think that

Poppy Harlow Betterhelp

therefore you can constantly expect to hear my honest opinion on what I think from my own experience and knowledge base as a certified psychologist I hope you discovered this video fascinating and practical if you did please like it listed below and do not hesitate to register for our YouTube channel where we’re going to be producing a growing number of videos on a variety of different mental health topics and please connect if there’s something particular you would like us to cover or resolve in an upcoming video