they ask you to create an account …Betterhelp Ethics…and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost more affordable for you overall 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 therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better aid uses both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four options 3 truly to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some people who are maybe a little bit more worried about treatment 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 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 join 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 throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone attending treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really practical and very available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient 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 anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of draws specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Ethics
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared really oddly 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 image 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 outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so