they ask you to produce an account …Betterhelp Corporate Office…and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance offers both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four choices 3 really to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s definitely great for some people who are maybe a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 then you wait on your therapist to join and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually 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 one of the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really practical and extremely accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of draws especially considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Corporate Office
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually 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 individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so