they ask you to develop an account …Betterhelp Launch Press Release…and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can also alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed 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 much better aid provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to understand that all four choices three really to me however they say it’s four are available and i know that’s certainly great for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 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 just a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to 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 therapist in particular i believe this does vary 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 more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and really accessible for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it type of sucks specifically considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Launch Press Release
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so