When I was first approached…Better Help Quiz…. to possibly team up with them on a youtube series among the important things that was truly important to me as a psychologist was that I would have autonomy over what I spoke about what what topics I selected to present and likewise you know my own views when when essential or appropriate to share them and I was approved that by a they generally said you understand we trust you as a scientific expert and
we’re gon na trust you to go out there and discuss what you know and among the things that I truly wished to address is the fact that I’m not simply here to state that online treatment is the answer for whatever you understand I believe it can be extremely useful for many people I’ve seen it myself dealing with people from a few months approximately over a year and I seen how having the ability to message and likewise have video sessions with someone is truly a it
nearly enhances the the healing experience in a way at the same time I have a private practice where I see people face-to-face and I thoroughly take pleasure in that and there are people that I see there that I wouldn’t consider seeing online either they would not be appropriate we wouldn’t have the ability to do the level and depth of work we’re doing or it just would not feel comfortable and which’s all right those 2 things can both be true and I believe one of the important things that I want to start to have people think about exists’s a location for both offline and online treatment it is actually a matter of you understand choosing what’s right for you however likewise what’s most proper for you with the help of a professional when I speak about certain counseling designs or techniques as being appropriate for you what I indicate by that is that it would be the best technique for
the particular problem that you’re dealing with and I think that a person of the concerns that a lot of people have is that online counseling is attempting to change offline counseling and I can inform you 100% that that’s not real I’ve had many discussions with the founder of where he has actually discussed that his audience isn’t to take on brick and mortar practices or put psychologists or licensed experts out of business his mission is to supply psychological health access to individuals who aren’t going to enter into the treatment office and I 100% assistance that mission and I think it’s important and we have an issue with gain access to
to psychological health care in this country and is one solution as our other online companies I was pointing out previously that there are things that I personally believe that online therapy is better for or offline treatment is better for and I’ve really I’ve actually discussed this in other settings due to the fact that it is something I feel pretty enthusiastic about and I have to state that my opinion has actually been popular by companies like in regards to hopefully how they how they deal with the people that present for care so I just wished to spend a number of minutes talking about my own is my own individual viewpoint about the things that are most proper for online versus offline treatment so in my view I see online treatment as a fantastic place for people who are dealing with hard life shifts for circumstances where they’re experiencing more stress than typical for scenarios where you understand they have an extremely precise concern with anxiety or social anxiety and a treatment like cognitive
behavior modification which is really structured can can benefit them which therapy because it’s not as interpersonal as others is perfect for online counseling due to the fact that it includes a lot of research it includes worksheets it involves finding out specific abilities and methods so moderate milder disorders like mild anxiety mild depression change conditions even PTSD as long as like the person has actually received care initially in other places these are all things that can be attended to through online counseling you understand think of somebody who has a agoraphobia and possibly they reach out to a therapist from their home since they can’t leave their home and just just to clarify agoraphobia is a disorder where people are truly frightened of being trapped and caught in a place where they may have a panic attack and so essentially they begin to restrict their activities and restrict their activities until many of them can’t leave their home without truly feeling substantial distress so if someone like that is at house and they can connect through their computer system and connect to a counselor that’s a great first step is that going to cure them absolutely not since agoraphobia to be successfully treated requirements that individual to be able to go outside and to resume regular activities and often that includes a therapist going to their home to help them with that process undoubtedly online counselors are going to be able to do that but could they be the bridge that got that individual who hesitates to leave their home from that preliminary helpful approach to therapy where they can actually have a much better life 100% and this is what the gap that aims to fill with their services my indicate this to this particular video and bringing these
things up is that I I want to plainly communicate that anything that I show you is going to be totally from where I stand as a professional psychologist and more significantly what I believe is as simply a human being on this earth attempting to do the very best that I can and so I I will not tell you that something is appropriate that I do not believe is appropriate I won’t show you that online counseling is the cure-all for whatever due to the fact that I do not think that and so you can constantly anticipate to hear my honest viewpoint on what I think from my own experience and knowledge base as a licensed psychologist I hope you discovered this video handy and intriguing if you did please like it listed below and feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel where we’re going to be producing increasingly more videos on a variety of different psychological health topics and please reach out if there’s something particular you would like us to cover or attend to in an approaching video