which will make the expense less expensive for you…Timothy Anderson Betterhelp… overall and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire 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 always the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 options 3 truly to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely good for some people who are perhaps a bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 therapist to sign up with 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 conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper

sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely available and extremely practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay 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 sucks particularly thinking about that much better assistance 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 believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Timothy Anderson Betterhelp

or messaging or chatting 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 image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so

Talking Timothy Anderson Betterhelp…better help is one solution as our other online companies I was mentioning earlier that there are things that I personally think that online therapy is more appropriate for or offline therapy is better for and I’ve actually I’ve in fact discussed this in other settings since it is something I feel quite passionate about and I need to say that my opinion has 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 simply wanted to invest a number of minutes speaking about my own is my own personal viewpoint about the important things that are most proper for offline versus online treatment so in my view I see online treatment as a terrific place for people who are having problem with tough life transitions for scenarios where they’re experiencing more tension than regular for circumstances where you understand they have a really specific issue with stress and anxiety or social anxiety and a treatment like cognitive behavior modification which is extremely structured can can benefit them and that therapy because it’s not as interpersonal as others is ideal for online therapy because it includes a great deal of homework it includes worksheets it includes finding out particular skills and techniques so moderate milder conditions like moderate anxiety mild depression change conditions even PTSD as long as like the individual has received care initially elsewhere these are all things that can be attended to through online counseling you understand think about someone who has a agoraphobia and perhaps they connect to a counselor from their house due to the fact that they can’t leave their house and simply just to clarify agoraphobia is a condition where individuals are truly terrified of being caught and trapped in a location where they might have a panic attack and so essentially they begin to limit their activities and restrict their activities up until a lot of them can’t leave their home without really feeling considerable distress so if somebody like that is at house and they can reach out through their computer system and connect to a counselor that’s a fantastic primary step is that going to treat them never since agoraphobia to be effectively treated requirements that individual to be able to go outdoors and to resume normal activities and often that involves a therapist going to their house to help them with that procedure obviously online counselors are going to have the ability to do that but could they be the bridge that got that person who hesitates to leave their home from that preliminary encouraging approach to counseling where they can really have a better life 100% and this is what the space that better help aims 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 share with you is going to be completely from where I stand as a professional psychologist and more significantly what I think is as simply a human being on this earth trying to do the best that I can therefore I I will not inform you that something is appropriate that I do not think is appropriate I will not show you that online therapy is the cure-all for everything because I do not believe that

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