I’m going to give a review of betterhelp.com from the perspective as a pastor ….Talkspace, Ipo…as someone who deals with online ministry and we have people that engage from us from all around the world i often 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 since our church and many churches have actually like a vetted referral list that we keep on hand to type of suggest in different focuses it’s generally people that we agree with theologically and we trust their practice however you get beyond your physical like geo footprint and it can be hard i’ve in the past usage concentrate on the household referral list i typically agree with what they believe and i trust their procedure does not imply i i know everybody on the list is validated however it’s a pretty strong list but if you get internationally it becomes the wild west so i’ve started to take notice of online therapy over the last couple years i did a video way back where i did a online medical professional go to this resembled i don’t understand five eight years ago therefore i have actually been wanting to experiment with betterhelp.com and so there were some things i wished to process with a therapist
and as somebody who’s gone through counseling in the past both separately and likewise marriage counseling i’ve experienced the benefit i have actually typically discovered counseling and conference with a psychologist etc as type of life hacking due to the fact that it’s getting somebody outside of your fear your sphere of influence and them speaking into your life and they typically see things that maybe you have actually heard before but perhaps you needed an outsider to confirm so i have actually constantly enjoyed the financial investment both in time and money in getting therapy so i wanted to check out better help so that i can suggest and type of see how the procedure went i will state as a disclaimer i am not a professional therapist psychologist i’m seminary experienced um which typically just implies extremely light counseling typically the way a pastor is trained without like a therapy focus is we’re type of like the emergency medical technicians the emergency situation people that show up with the ambulance and we identify and after that we recommend individuals and we are continuously going hey here’s a spiritual area here’s are you maybe you require to go procedure with someone that’s a bit more of a specialist in that location so i’m not an expert this is simply my individual viewpoint is it valuable my experience therefore there’s five locations i’m going to take a look at i’m going to look at the prices which is a huge element the algorithm of linking you to an actual therapist the innovation how did that go the actual suggestions of
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my session over a month and after that the faith component which is clearly truly essential to me since you don’t wish to recommend someone to something and then you know possibly they they affirm something or they say something that your church doesn’t believe in which could be the spectrum naturally therefore first off on price it was 320 for a month 80 bucks a week which include a weekly video session and unrestricted messaging which you know what does that indicate it simply means a couple messages with your therapist but i was impressed that the cost was not bad you know i’ve done therapy in the past and it can be extremely pricey especially if you’re getting someone who is good 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 effectively priced done some other counseling and marital relationship counseling and i what sticks out to me on this was the marriage counseling we went to a quite respectable organization a place that was well known published the the couple with the published uh authors and it was 80 dollars with a pastoral discount rate so that simply sort of leads you to think what you understand the full cost is pretty costly and so uh 320 dollars is not bad particularly and we’ll talk about this on the tech side the support was great you know in the past when i’ve done therapy in both group or you understand separately you’re normally not connecting with your instructor constantly it’s normally simply around your sessions but to build a habit start digitally there’s something about more access to your counselor that i truly liked and my therapist was respectable at signing 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 excessive they asked your financial situation so you can receive less i didn’t go through that procedure also talk to your insurance provider if you have it to learn if you qualify however the pricing i felt particularly for the um the proficiency of my counselor i was really amazed what i got for the 320 and so um and after that they give you various choices when you cancel where you can sort of try it for an extra set of time if you wish to if you want to continue on they do charge you regular monthly therefore you have to pay for a month of beforehand therefore which makes sense however i i believe it i was really amazed by the price it’s still a lot of cash i understand for a lot of people um you understand someone like me i don’t utilize therapy every week or perhaps every year but i do i have actually found i delight in the point of view
um every five years or two or if something’s going on that i can’t process specifically because of some youth uh such things that occur in my childhood i there’s constantly something i’m discovering myself however i have actually always enjoyed it so pricing pretty good second the algorithm of in fact recommending they go through an entire process where they ask you a series of concerns prior to you ever logged in you understand mail age what you’re searching for to get out of counseling they ask like health and have you been depressed and things like that how are your sleeping habits some general questions that are all quite basic um i and i believed the concerns were solid um ultimately they do get in we’ll talk 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 related questions that i was actually extremely satisfied with i wasn’t anticipating a lot on the faith area but i was impressed by how they engaged that part of who i am as a person because that is essential to me and crucial to a great deal of people um they pretty much took that it took anywhere but they state 24 to 48 hours to sort of assign you to a counselor and uh i got assigned quite fast i believe it was within 24 hr got email alerted it stated here’s the person i saw an image a bio i could see their knowledge i could see other evaluations about them and after that it was type of like try attempt them out and i i and i could select to have someone else if i wished to and even when you stop they’re very good at like asking a great deal of questions around you know what you consider your accounts or how did that session did they appear i mean they’re they’re actually attempting to make sure everyone is solid and i might alter my counselor at any time there was no issue with altering um my counselor was fantastic about that too like you know was asking a great deal of concerns which is an odd balance because you want a therapist that’s tough you but also um you understand someone that you like that you can rely on so it’s a hard relationship i have actually been pretty um benefit i have actually gained from a lot of great therapy so i believe i have not really been paired up 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 happens through the website so it’s um it’s that you get alerts on text and email and so forth however basically you satisfy and interact through their web website so betterhelp.com you have an account and basically it begins a personal chat with the person you’re counseling when you do alter counselor that data goes away at least gain access to from your end and but for example you set up everything within the app you um you meet the video innovation it’s kind of like a google hangout that’s built into the the real site and the video was terrific um my my my counselor had the video on it worked very smoothly um the Talkspace, Ipo
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only thing that was kind of strange was typically you can change your audio and video inputs um by picking the different locations i couldn’t find out how to do that as somebody who has some nicer gear i usually like to double check it’s using the ideal mic input not a big deal but that’s more of a technical geek type of element but i was impressed by how everything worked you know web-based stuff and not software-based things or like you understand uh software application resting on your computer in some cases isn’t as good you understand zoom is downloaded on your computer versus google hangouts is in in the cloud in some cases that could be hit or miss however i was really amazed by the whole quality and my my uh my counselor was older and he seemed to understand how to run all of it and it was really effective i was impressed by the engagement from him via messaging uh the important things is i would get e-mails that he had actually published a message but because of security factors which makes sense none of the message was in my email i had to always click onto the site to see things i type of wish i could open that up however i comprehend that perhaps you don’t desire your personal details that is taking place in between counselor in your inbox i also got text reminders you understand i had to decide in for that but like 20 minutes before my session i had the ability to schedule
everything and you understand quickly add it to my calendar however in general the innovation was really remarkable you know my therapist sent me some pdfs and things to process prior to our first meeting i filled it out turn it in i mean it wasn’t the most state-of-the-art experience but it worked effectively therefore i was really pleased with the total innovation the next area is the actual vice my counselor was very was extremely competent and had a lot of experience and they were excellent and i enjoyed it they it was a good balance Talkspace, Ipo