they ask you to create an account …Betterhelp International Clients…and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and then you can likewise alter your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense cheaper for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better aid uses both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with 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 instant message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all four choices three really to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable 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 counselor 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 during your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style 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 much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that 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 differ by counselor 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 ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and extremely accessible for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of draws especially considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling 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 International Clients
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared really oddly 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 photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so