I’m going to give an evaluation of betterhelp.com from the viewpoint as a pastor ….Talk Space/Thread…as somebody who deals with online ministry and we have individuals that engage from us from all around the world i often get asked do you recommend a counselor or a therapist or a psychologist and it can be challenging you know if you’re near a church one of our churches it’s genuine simple because our church and many churches have like a vetted recommendation list that we keep on hand to sort of suggest in various focuses it’s generally individuals that we agree with theologically and we trust their practice however you get beyond your physical like geo footprint and it can be difficult i’ve in the past usage focus on the family referral list i generally agree with what they believe and i trust their procedure doesn’t imply i i understand everyone on the list is validated but it’s a quite solid list but if you get internationally it ends up being the wild west so i’ve begun to focus on online therapy over the last couple years i did a video way back where i did a online doctor visit this was like i don’t know 5 8 years earlier and so i’ve been wishing to experiment with betterhelp.com therefore there were some things i wished to process with a therapist
and as someone who’s gone through therapy in the past both individually and likewise marital relationship therapy i have actually experienced the advantage i’ve typically found counseling and meeting with a psychologist and so forth as sort of life hacking since it’s getting someone outside of your worry your sphere of influence and them speaking into your life and they generally see things that maybe you’ve heard before but perhaps you needed an outsider to validate so i have actually constantly delighted in the financial investment both in time and cash in getting therapy so i wished to experiment with better help so that i can recommend and type of see how the procedure went i will say as a disclaimer i am not a professional therapist psychologist i’m seminary experienced um which usually simply means very light therapy normally the way a pastor is trained without like a counseling focus is we’re type of like the emts the emergency individuals that appear with the ambulance and we detect and then we suggest people and we are continuously going hey here’s a spiritual area here’s are you perhaps you need to go procedure with someone that’s a bit more of an expert because area so i’m not an expert this is simply my personal opinion is it handy my experience and so there’s 5 locations i’m going to look at i’m going to take a look at the prices which is a huge element the algorithm of connecting you to a real therapist the innovation how did that go the actual guidance of
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my session over a month and then the faith aspect which is certainly really essential to me due to the fact that you don’t want to recommend somebody to something and then you know possibly they they verify something or they state something that your church does not believe in which could be the spectrum of course therefore first off on rate it was 320 for a month 80 bucks a week that include a weekly video session and unlimited messaging which you know what does that suggest it just indicates a couple messages with your therapist but i was impressed that the price was okay you know i’ve done counseling in the past and it can be very pricey especially if you’re getting somebody who is good at what they have actually done i’ve both done it when i was in seminary i needed to go through some counseling a part of my program and it was just sufficiently priced done some other counseling and marital relationship counseling and i what stands apart to me on this was the marital relationship therapy we went to a pretty reputable institution a place that was well known released the the couple with the published uh authors and it was 80 dollars with a pastoral discount rate so that just kind of leads you to believe what you know the complete price is pretty expensive therefore uh 320 dollars is okay particularly and we’ll talk about this on the tech side the support was very good you understand in the past when i’ve done counseling in both group or you know separately you’re usually not communicating with your instructor continuously it’s usually simply around your sessions but to construct a routine start digitally there’s something about more access to your counselor that i really liked and my therapist was pretty good 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 talk to your insurance supplier if you have it to discover if you qualify but the prices i felt particularly for the um the knowledge of my therapist i was very satisfied what i got for the 320 therefore um and after that they provide you various options when you cancel where you can kind of try it for an extra set of time if you wish to if you want to continue they do charge you month-to-month and so you need to spend for a month of beforehand therefore which makes sense however i i think it i was extremely satisfied by the price it’s still a lot of money i know for a great deal of people um you understand somebody like me i do not use therapy each week or perhaps every year but i do i have discovered i delight in the perspective
um every five years or so or if something’s going on that i can’t process particularly because of some childhood uh such things that take place in my youth i there’s constantly something i’m learning about myself but i have actually always enjoyed it so pricing respectable second the algorithm of really recommending they go through a whole procedure where they ask you a series of concerns before you ever visited you understand mail age what you’re looking for to get out of therapy they ask like health and have you been depressed and stuff like that how are your sleeping routines some basic questions that are all pretty basic um i and i thought the concerns were strong um ultimately they do get in we’ll discuss this in the face section they ask you like what your faith is and your
denomination and they were respectable about asking some faith related concerns that i was in fact extremely impressed with i wasn’t anticipating a lot on the faith location but i was impressed by how they engaged that part of who i am as a person because that is essential to me and essential to a lot of people um they pretty much took that it took anywhere but they say 24 to 48 hours to sort of assign you to a counselor and uh i got designated pretty quick i believe it was within 24 hr got e-mail notified it said here’s the individual i saw an image a bio i might see their proficiency i could see other evaluations about them and after that it was sort of like try attempt them out and i i and i might choose to have somebody else if i wanted to and even when you quit they’re great at like asking a great deal of concerns around you understand what you think about your accounts or how did that session did they show up i imply they’re they’re truly trying to ensure everyone is strong and i might change my counselor at any time there was no concern with changing um my therapist was terrific about that too like you know was asking a great deal of questions which is an odd balance since you desire a therapist that’s difficult you however likewise um you know someone that you like that you can trust so it’s a difficult relationship i’ve been pretty um benefit i’ve benefited from a great deal of good counseling so i believe i haven’t actually been paired up with somebody that i didn’t get along with however i was impressed by the algorithm the concerns and how the whole experience worked next the technology everything occurs through the site so it’s um it’s that you get alerts on text and e-mail etc but basically you interact and fulfill through their web website so betterhelp.com you have an account and practically it starts a private chat with the individual you’re counseling when you do alter counselor that information goes away at least gain access to from your end and but for example you schedule whatever within the app you um you meet the video technology it’s type of like a google hangout that’s constructed into the the real site and the video was excellent um my my my therapist had the video on it worked really efficiently um the Talk Space/Thread
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only thing that was sort of unusual was usually you can alter your audio and video inputs um by choosing the various locations i could not determine how to do that as someone who has some nicer gear i usually like to check it’s using the best mic input not a big deal however that’s more of a technical geek kind of aspect but i was impressed by how whatever worked you know web-based stuff and not software-based stuff or like you understand uh software application sitting on your computer often 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 very satisfied by the whole quality and my my uh my counselor was older and he appeared to understand how to run all of it and it was extremely efficient i was impressed by the engagement from him through messaging uh the thing is i would get emails that he had published a message however because of security reasons which makes sense none of the message was in my e-mail i needed to always click onto the site to see things i kind of wish i could open that up however i understand that maybe you do not want your private information that is occurring between counselor in your inbox i also got text tips you know i needed to decide in for that but like 20 minutes prior to my session i had the ability to schedule
whatever and you understand easily add it to my calendar but in general the technology was extremely outstanding you understand my counselor sent me some things and pdfs to procedure before our very first conference i filled it out turn it in i suggest it wasn’t the most modern experience but it worked effectively therefore i was really impressed with the total innovation the next area is the real vice my therapist was very was really knowledgeable and had a lot of experience and they were excellent and i enjoyed it they it was a great balance Talk Space/Thread