they ask you to create an account …Betterhelp Counseling Pay…and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you general and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire 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 always the case and i believe that better help provides both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives three really to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly good for some individuals who are maybe a bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 for your therapist to sign up with 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 first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist 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 less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really practical and extremely accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips 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 certainly reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of sucks specifically thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Counseling Pay
or talking or messaging 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 select the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so