When I was first approached…Better Help Us…. to perhaps work together with them on a youtube series among the important things that was really important to me as a psychologist was that I would have autonomy over what I discussed what what subjects I chose to present and also you understand my own views when when essential or appropriate to share them and I was approved that by a they essentially stated you know we trust you as a scientific professional and
we’re gon na trust you to head out there and talk about what you know and among the things that I really wished to address is the reality that I’m not just here to say that online therapy is the answer for whatever you know I think it can be incredibly valuable for many people I have actually seen it myself dealing with individuals from a couple of months approximately over a year and I seen how being able to message and likewise have video sessions with somebody is actually a it
almost enhances the the healing experience in a manner at the same time I have a private practice where I see individuals in person and I completely enjoy that and there are people that I see there that I would not think about 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 comfy and and that’s fine those two things can both be true and I think among the important things that I want to begin to have individuals think about exists’s a place for both offline and online treatment it is truly a matter of you understand deciding what’s right for you but also what’s most suitable for you with the help of a professional when I speak about specific therapy designs or approaches as being appropriate for you what I suggest by that is that it would be the best approach for
the particular problem that you’re handling and I believe that one of the concerns that a great deal of individuals have is that online therapy is trying to replace offline therapy and I can tell you 100% that that’s not real I’ve had numerous conversations with the creator of where he has actually discussed that his audience isn’t to compete with traditional practices or put psychologists or certified experts out of business his objective is to provide mental health access to the people who aren’t going to enter the therapy workplace and I 100% assistance that mission and I think it is very important and we have a problem with gain access to
to mental healthcare in this country and is one solution as our other online companies I was mentioning earlier that there are things that I personally think that online treatment is better for or offline treatment is more appropriate for and I’ve in fact I’ve actually discussed this in other settings since it is something I feel pretty passionate about and I have to state that my viewpoint has actually been popular by business like in regards to hopefully how they how they work with the people that provide for care so I just wanted to spend a couple of minutes discussing my own is my own personal opinion about the things that are most appropriate for offline versus online treatment so in my view I see online therapy as a wonderful place for people who are struggling with hard life shifts for scenarios where they’re experiencing more tension than regular for situations where you know they have an extremely well-defined issue with stress and anxiety or social anxiety and a treatment like cognitive
behavior modification which is very structured can can benefit them and that therapy because it’s not as social as others is ideal for online therapy because it involves a lot of homework it involves worksheets it involves discovering particular abilities and techniques so mild milder disorders like mild anxiety mild depression modification conditions even PTSD as long as like the individual has gotten care initially somewhere else these are all things that can be dealt with through online counseling you understand consider someone who has a agoraphobia and perhaps they reach out to a therapist from their home due to the fact that they can’t leave their house and just simply to clarify agoraphobia is a disorder where people are truly horrified of being caught and caught in a location where they might have an anxiety attack and so essentially they start to restrict their activities and limit their activities up until much of them can’t leave their home without really feeling significant distress so if somebody like that is at house and they can reach out through their computer and link to a therapist that’s a fantastic primary step is that going to cure them absolutely not since agoraphobia to be successfully treated requirements that person to be able to go outside and to resume normal activities and in some cases that involves a therapist going to their home to help them with that process certainly online therapists are going to be able to do that but could they be the bridge that got that person who’s afraid to leave their home from that preliminary encouraging method to counseling where they can actually have a much better life 100% and this is what the gap that aims to fill with their services my point to this to this specific video and bringing these
things up is that I I want to plainly communicate that anything that I share with you is going to be completely from where I stand as an expert psychologist and more significantly what I think is as simply a human being on this earth attempting to do the very best that I can therefore I I will not tell you that something is appropriate that I don’t believe is appropriate I won’t share with you that online therapy is the cure-all for whatever due to the fact that I do not think that therefore you can constantly expect to hear my truthful opinion on what I think from my own experience and knowledge base as a licensed psychologist I hope you discovered this video helpful and interesting if you did please like it below and do not hesitate to register for our YouTube channel where we’re going to be producing increasingly more videos on a variety of different psychological health subjects and please connect if there’s something specific you would like us to cover or attend to in an approaching video