they ask you to create an account …Betterhelp Reivews…and then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out questionnaire 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 necessarily the case and i believe that better help uses both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 choices 3 really to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more worried 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 for your therapist to join 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 during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just 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 counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid 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 believe among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really accessible and really convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text pointers 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 but uh certainly 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 anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of draws 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 link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Reivews
or chatting or messaging during a session photos 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 select the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so