they ask you to develop an account …Betterhelp And Insurance…and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance uses both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four options three truly to me however they state it’s four are offered and i know that’s definitely good for some individuals who are possibly a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and after that you wait for your counselor to join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very accessible and extremely hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your consultation so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of draws especially considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp And Insurance
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so