As you can understand for me Talk Space/Deborah Hayes . and that’s why i started utilizing it and i strongly advise that you make an application for their financial aid due to the fact that they do apply a respectable discount and for me when i applied i was paying about 108 dollars when i was a trainee versus 135 dollars when i wasn’t a trainee anymore but this was a pro since it was much more economical than in-person therapy for me even utilizing insurance coverage and i guess the con would be that better help does decline health insurance at least at the time of this recording so when you initially register you go through a series of questions about demographics and other questions like are you religious are you spiritual what are you trying to leave therapy things like that and after you respond to these questions and you’re signed up you’re matched with a counselor that type of accompanies the answers that you addressed the pro is that it’s truly
easy to be matched with a counselor but the con is that the counselor can be a hit or miss after going through some research and examines on my own i read that a lot of people really get pretty bad therapists that do not either listen to them or they’re not as responsive as they must be and with my own experience my first therapist resembled that but also had a great deal of issues like sympathizing with me and listening to me so if you ever encounter a situation like this you do not need to describe yourself you can just strike switch counselor or whatever it is change therapist and choose from their list of available therapists when i was first beginning treatment a great deal of individuals were informing me that you require at least a month before you actually understand if the relationship is good before moving on but i ‘d say the minute that you seem like something’s off that you’re not being listened to or heard you dip out like you leave right away all right possibly not like that minute i’m simply saying that you don’t need a whole month to see if someone’s the right fit for you you have to trust yourself and know that if you feel like something is off trust your gut betterhelp markets that there’s live chat there’s phone sessions video sessions and you can likewise message your therapist in between sessions which is fantastic due to the fact that they’re permitting easier access to your therapist depending on what your needs are the con is that not all therapists use all modes of communication and my first therapist really only provided chat sessions and phone sessions and when i really emailed betterhelp to complain they stated hey we’re so sorry however it’s at the discretion of the therapist to have these modes of communication and due to personal reasons i wound up switching over to another counselor anyway who did offer practically
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communication the sessions were about thirty minutes and if i felt like there was a lot more to speak about i constantly asked my therapist if i could extend my time for an hour into book sessions you simply need to bring up the calendar and choose the days and times that work best for you and if there aren’t any days that work for you then you can coordinate that with your therapist i personally choose the video sessions because i seem like talking face to face is constantly extremely useful for me but honestly there are a lot of days where i simply don’t want to talk to somebody so i was able to still book a live chat session instead of skipping out completely on treatment which i actually valued among the cons in my opinion would be that if you have an in-demand therapist which was the case with the 2nd therapist that i saw sessions were constantly just reserved out 2 to 3
weeks at a time and he was honestly the very best therapist i’ve ever seen like in person and through online treatment so i wanted to wait that time for him this next con would be a personal experience of mine that my therapist when he did appear would sometimes appear like 10 or 15 minutes late without any warning without messaging me to let me understand that he was gon na be late so that simply frustrated me a little bit so there’s a tab for journaling and the journal entries are all blank they in fact have actually triggered entries now which you can also shuffle through if you wish to utilize those rather and you could choose to share those journal entries with your therapist or simply leave them be and keep them private and for the group in ours i truly simulated the subjects that they had them on i simply disliked that they were constantly set up during the work day that i wasn’t able to go to and it’s a shame because i feel like i would have gotten a lot more out of the better health experience if those groupon hours were set up at more convenient times so you people are probably believing like oh you were seeing the best therapist you’ve ever seen why would you leave the app well this is a story for you alright so my therapist ended up leaving the platform without saying goodbye [Laughter] it was so bad like i was with him practically a whole year and a half and he simply dipped out and it was because of health reasons which i completely understand however that’s like a breakup y’ all like like i was spilling my heart and soul out to this person and he simply left um but then i was just like fine you understand what i’ll simply provide another therapist an opportunity so i matched with another therapist and she no showed on me a couple times and at that point i was similar to you know what this i’m done i’m done this is adding on more distress for me so i think i’m just gon na let it go and maybe try another app which i most likely will and review that a person too in the future now i ‘d also like to state that i learnt about the personal privacy issues regarding better help after i quit the platform and truly quick
if you do not understand what i’m discussing there’s debate walking around that better help is mining your data and sharing it with other apps like facebook and snapchat for marketing purposes this is all included in their personal privacy policy and you could check out it utilizing the link that i’m going to put in the screen right here in my opinion even though the controversy resembles super messed up i think that if you understand this going on and you kind of simply don’t care and you require the help i believe that better help is a great alternative for you and i’m stating this due to the fact that i found the best therapist i’ve ever had on the app and i believe that having apps like betterhelp this is opening up a whole new world and offering more access to people who would not otherwise get help and go to therapy if i missed anything in this video or if you had a different experience for me go ahead and comment down below because i think that it will be really valuable for other individuals to find out about your experience and i ‘d be curious too like what did you go through did you go through the very same things that i did if you found this video helpful don’t forget to offer it a big thumbs up down below and if you’re brand-new here do not forget to hit the subscribe button to Talk Space/Deborah Hayes…