they ask you to produce an account …Betterhelp.C…and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense more affordable for you general and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better assistance offers both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 options three actually to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about 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 web 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 on your therapist 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 begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy 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 then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really accessible and very practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of 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 available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp.C
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared really strangely 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 choose the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so