they ask you to produce an account …Betterhelp Refund Policy…and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can likewise change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance offers both kinds of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to 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 call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all four options 3 actually to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 then you wait on your counselor 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 begin having your your conference throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very accessible and extremely hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of sucks especially considering that much 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 mean i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Refund Policy
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared really 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 image 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 just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so