they ask you to create an account …Betterhelp Payment Receipts…and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed questionnaire 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 necessarily the case and i think that much better help uses both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 options three actually to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since 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 then you wait on your therapist to join 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 throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however 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 however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really hassle-free and very available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however 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 available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of sucks specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Payment Receipts
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared extremely 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 have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so