they ask you to produce an account …Betterhelp Payment Payment…and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can likewise change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based on 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 counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid provides both kinds of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official 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 however it is good to know that all four options 3 really to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in 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 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 on your counselor to sign up with 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor 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 but i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very practical and extremely accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of draws particularly 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 indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Payment Payment
or talking or messaging during 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 have to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so