I’m going to give a review of betterhelp.com from the point of view as a pastor ….Talkspace Commercial Actor…as someone who handles online ministry and we have individuals that engage from us from all around the world i typically get asked do you advise a therapist or a therapist or a psychologist and it can be hard you know if you’re near a church one of our churches it’s real simple due to the fact that our church and the majority of churches have like a vetted recommendation list that we keep on hand to type of recommend in different focuses it’s usually individuals that we agree with theologically and we trust their practice but you get beyond your physical like geo footprint and it can be tough i’ve in the past use concentrate on the family referral list i normally agree with what they believe and i trust their procedure doesn’t suggest i i understand everyone on the list is verified but it’s a pretty solid list but if you get internationally it becomes the wild west so i have actually started to pay attention to online therapy over the last couple years i did a video way back where i did a online medical professional visit this resembled i do not understand 5 8 years back and so i have actually been wishing to experiment with betterhelp.com and so there were some things i wanted to process with a therapist
and as someone who’s gone through therapy in the past both separately and also marital relationship counseling i have actually experienced the advantage i’ve frequently found therapy and conference with a psychologist and so forth as sort of life hacking since it’s getting somebody beyond your fear your sphere of influence and them speaking into your life and they usually see things that maybe you have actually heard before but perhaps you required an outsider to validate so i’ve always enjoyed the financial investment both in time and money in getting counseling so i wanted to try out better help so that i can advise and type of see how the process went i will say as a disclaimer i am not a professional therapist psychologist i’m seminary qualified um which generally just implies really light therapy usually the way a pastor is trained without like a therapy focus is we’re type of like the emts the emergency situation individuals that show up with the ambulance and we identify and then we advise individuals and we are continuously going hey here’s a spiritual area here’s are you possibly you need to go procedure with somebody that’s a little bit more of a professional because location so i’m not a specialist this is simply my individual viewpoint is it useful my experience therefore there’s 5 areas i’m going to take a look at i’m going to look at the rates which is a huge factor the algorithm of linking you to a real counselor the innovation how did that go the real recommendations of
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my session over a month and then the faith element which is clearly truly essential to me due to the fact that you do not wish to advise someone to something and then you understand perhaps they they affirm something or they state something that your church does not believe in which could be the spectrum naturally therefore first of all on cost it was 320 for a month 80 bucks a week which include a weekly video session and unlimited messaging which you understand what does that imply it simply suggests a couple messages with your counselor but i was impressed that the cost was okay you understand i have actually done therapy in the past and it can be extremely expensive particularly if you’re getting someone who is proficient at what they have actually done i’ve both done it when i remained in seminary i had to go through some counseling a part of my program and it was just sufficiently priced done some other therapy and marital relationship therapy and i what stands out to me on this was the marital relationship therapy we went to a quite credible institution a location that was well known published the the couple with the released uh authors and it was 80 bucks with a pastoral discount rate so that just kind of leads you to believe what you know the complete cost is quite costly and so uh 320 dollars is okay especially and we’ll discuss this on the tech side the assistance was very good you understand in the past when i’ve done therapy in both group or you know individually you’re typically not connecting with your instructor continually it’s usually simply around your sessions however to develop a habit start digitally there’s something about more access to your therapist that i actually liked and my counselor was respectable at checking in on me and simply asking things throughout the week even when we were not meeting so there was a process for you to get a discount if that was not um if it was too much they asked your monetary situation so you can get approved for less i didn’t go through that procedure likewise check with your insurance coverage provider if you have it to discover if you certify however the rates i felt especially for the um the know-how of my counselor i was extremely pleased what i got for the 320 therefore um and then they offer you various options when you cancel where you can sort of try it for an additional set of time if you wish to if you want to continue on they do charge you monthly and so you have to spend for a month of in advance and so that makes sense however i i believe it i was really impressed by the price it’s still a great deal of cash i understand for a lot of people um you know somebody like me i don’t use counseling every week or perhaps every year but i do i have actually discovered i enjoy the point of view
um every 5 years approximately or if something’s going on that i can’t process particularly because of some childhood uh such things that take place in my childhood i there’s always something i’m discovering myself but i have actually always enjoyed it so pricing pretty good second the algorithm of actually recommending they go through a whole procedure where they ask you a series of questions before you ever logged in you understand mail age what you’re trying to find to leave therapy they inquire like health and have you been depressed and things like that how are your sleeping habits some general concerns that are all quite standard um i and i thought the questions were solid um eventually they do get in we’ll speak about this in the face area they ask you like what your faith is and your
denomination and they were respectable about asking some faith associated concerns that i was in fact very satisfied with i wasn’t anticipating a lot on the faith location however i was impressed by how they engaged that part of who i am as a person because that is very important to me and essential to a lot of individuals um they basically took that it took anywhere but they say 24 to two days to type of designate you to a therapist and uh i got assigned pretty quick i believe it was within 24 hours got email informed it said here’s the person i saw a photo a bio i might see their proficiency i might see other evaluations about them and then it was type of like shot try them out and i i and i could choose to have somebody else if i wished to and even when you stop they’re very good at like asking a great deal of concerns around you understand what you consider your accounts or how did that session did they appear i indicate they’re they’re truly trying to make sure everybody is strong and i could alter my counselor at any time there was no concern with altering um my therapist was terrific about that too like you understand was asking a lot of questions which is a strange balance because you want a therapist that’s challenging you but also um you understand someone that you like that you can rely on so it’s a hard relationship i’ve been quite um benefit i have actually benefited from a great deal of good counseling so i think i haven’t truly been paired with somebody that i didn’t agree however i was impressed by the algorithm the questions and how the entire experience worked next the innovation everything takes place through the website so it’s um it’s that you get notifications on text and email etc however essentially you satisfy and interact through their web website so betterhelp.com you have an account and pretty much it starts a private chat with the individual you’re counseling when you do change therapist that information disappears at least gain access to from your end and but for example you arrange whatever within the app you um you meet the video innovation it’s type of like a google hangout that’s built into the the actual website and the video was excellent um my my my counselor had the video on it worked extremely smoothly um the Talkspace Commercial Actor
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just thing that was type of unusual was generally you can alter your audio and video inputs um by selecting the different locations i could not determine how to do that as somebody who has some nicer equipment i usually like to double check it’s using the right mic input not a big deal however that’s more of a technical geek kind of element but i was impressed by how whatever worked you understand web-based things and not software-based stuff or like you know uh software resting on your computer sometimes isn’t as good you understand zoom is downloaded on your computer system versus google hangouts is in in the cloud in some cases that could be hit or miss but i was extremely pleased by the whole quality and my my uh my counselor was older and he appeared to know how to run it all and it was extremely reliable i was impressed by the engagement from him through messaging uh the thing is i would get e-mails that he had published a message but because of security reasons that makes sense none of the message was in my e-mail i needed to constantly click onto the site to see things i kind of wish i could open that up but i understand that maybe you do not want your private info that is taking place in between counselor in your inbox i likewise got text tips you understand i needed to decide in for that however like 20 minutes prior to my session i was able to schedule
whatever and you know easily add it to my calendar but overall the technology was very outstanding you understand my therapist sent me some pdfs and things to procedure before our very first meeting i filled it out turn it in i imply it wasn’t the most modern experience but it worked extremely well and so i was really satisfied with the general technology the next area is the real vice my therapist was really was extremely experienced and had a lot of experience and they were good and i enjoyed it they it was an excellent balance Talkspace Commercial Actor