they ask you to produce an account …Betterhelp/Cpm…and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can also alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that much better help provides both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak 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 however it is great to understand that all four options 3 really to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some people who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them unpleasant 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 therapist to sign up with and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to resolve 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 therapist in particular i believe this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really hassle-free and really available for many 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 message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely 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 opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp/Cpm
or messaging or talking throughout a session photos are shared really 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 have to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so