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After trying online therapy off and on for the past year, I have started to feel like it might not be the most effective way to support my mental health. I’m a very impatient person who knows what specific issues I want help with. I’ve found it usually takes me at least three sessions before I feel like my therapist has become familiar enough with me and my concerns to offer helpful insights. But that meant spending a couple of weeks and hundreds of dollars to get to that point. I realized I was looking more for on-the-spot tools that would not set me back so much financially.
Therapy Wasn’t Providing Strategies to Manage My Mental Health, So I Tried the Real App
I’d recently heard about this new mental health app called Real that offered therapist-created tools and what the app calls therapist-led “events,” which are essentially virtual group therapy sessions you can participate in with your camera on or off (and your name revealed or kept private). The Real team is led by licensed mental health providers, including Nina Vasan, MD, a psychiatrist and founder/executive director of Stanford University’s Brainstorm Lab for Mental Health Innovation, and Rachel Hoffman, PhD, author of Dating and Mating in a Techno-Driven World.
The app is basically a vast library of audio talks given by licensed therapists, all of whom have detailed bios on the website. Each dating Skotlannin nainen talk offers evidence-based guidance and practical techniques you can use to navigate various issues in your day-to-day life. Continue reading
