they ask you to create an account …Betterhelp Prescribe Medication…and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can also alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey 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 much better help offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference 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 but it is good to know that all 4 options 3 truly to me but they say it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about therapy 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 web 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 await your counselor to sign up with 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style 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 comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor 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 actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and very available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already 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 kind of draws especially thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Prescribe Medication
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so