they ask you to develop an account …Betterhelp Annual Revenue…and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions 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 think that better assistance offers both kinds of mental health professionals 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 very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four options three truly to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s certainly good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 sign up with and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely convenient and really accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of draws especially considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Annual Revenue
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so