When I was first approached…Betterhelp Online Therapy Jobs…. to potentially team up with them on a youtube series one of the important things that was truly crucial to me as a psychologist was that I would have autonomy over what I talked about what what subjects I picked to present and also you understand my own views when when needed or appropriate to share them and I was approved that by a they essentially said you understand we trust you as a clinical professional and
we’re gon na trust you to go out there and talk about what you know and among the important things that I truly wished to address is the reality that I’m not simply here to state that online therapy is the answer for everything you understand I think it can be extremely handy for many people I’ve seen it myself working with people from a few months up to over a year and I seen how being able to message and also have video sessions with someone is really a it
practically improves the the healing experience in such a way at the same time I have a private practice where I see individuals in person and I thoroughly delight in that and there are people that I see there that I would not consider seeing online either they wouldn’t be appropriate we wouldn’t be able to do the level and depth of work we’re doing or it just wouldn’t feel comfortable and which’s okay those two things can both hold true and I think among the things that I want to begin to have people consider is there’s a location for both offline and online treatment it is really a matter of you know choosing what’s right for you but likewise what’s most appropriate for you with the help of a professional when I speak about certain therapy designs or methods as being appropriate for you what I mean by that is that it would be the best method for
the particular problem that you’re dealing with and I think that one of the issues that a lot of people have is that online counseling is trying to replace offline counseling and I can tell you 100% that that’s not true I’ve had lots of conversations with the founder of where he has actually mentioned that his audience isn’t to take on traditional practices or put psychologists or licensed specialists out of business his objective is to offer mental health access to individuals who aren’t going to enter the treatment office and I 100% assistance that objective and I believe it’s important and we have a problem with gain access to
to mental healthcare in this country and is one service as our other online business I was pointing out previously that there are things that I personally think that online therapy is better suited for or offline treatment is more appropriate for and I’ve in fact I’ve in fact discussed this in other settings because it is something I feel quite enthusiastic about and I have to say that my viewpoint has been well-received by companies like in regards to ideally how they how they deal with the people that present for care so I just wanted to spend a number of minutes discussing my own is my own individual opinion about the things that are most proper for online versus offline therapy so in my view I see online treatment as a fantastic location for people who are fighting with tough life transitions for scenarios where they’re experiencing more stress than regular for situations where you know they have a really well-defined problem with stress and anxiety or social stress and anxiety and a treatment like cognitive
behavioral therapy which is very structured can can benefit them and that therapy because it’s not as interpersonal as others is best for online counseling due to the fact that it includes a great deal of research it involves worksheets it involves finding out particular abilities and techniques so moderate milder conditions like mild stress and anxiety mild depression modification conditions even PTSD as long as like the person has actually gotten care initially in other places these are all things that can be attended to through online therapy you know think of somebody who has a agoraphobia and possibly they reach out to a counselor from their house since they can’t leave their house and simply just to clarify agoraphobia is a condition where individuals are actually frightened of being trapped and caught in a place where they might have an anxiety attack and so essentially they start to limit their activities and limit their activities up until a number of them can’t leave their home without truly feeling substantial distress so if someone like that is at house and they can reach out through their computer system and connect to a therapist that’s an excellent primary step is that going to treat them absolutely not due to the fact that agoraphobia to be effectively treated requirements that individual to be able to go outside and to resume typical activities and sometimes that includes a therapist going to their house to help them with that procedure obviously online counselors are going to have the ability to do that but could they be the bridge that got that person who hesitates to leave their home from that initial helpful method to counseling where they can actually have a better life 100% and this is what the space that intends to fill with their services my indicate this to this specific video and bringing these
things up is that I I want to clearly communicate that anything that I share with you is going to be completely from where I stand as an expert psychologist and more notably what I believe is as simply a human being on this earth attempting to do the very best that I can therefore I I won’t inform you that something is appropriate that I do not believe is appropriate I will not share with you that online counseling is the cure-all for everything since I do not believe that and so you can always expect to hear my honest opinion on what I believe from my own experience and knowledge base as a licensed psychologist I hope you discovered this video handy and interesting if you did please like it below and feel free to register for our YouTube channel where we’re going to be producing increasingly more videos on a variety of various psychological health subjects and please reach out if there’s something specific you would like us to resolve or cover in an approaching video