they ask you to produce an account …Betterhelp Scandal…and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price 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 costly however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly 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 believe that much better help provides both kinds of mental health professionals 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 very first official 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 however it is good to know that all 4 choices 3 truly to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some people who are maybe a little bit more worried about therapy 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 internet 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 for your therapist to join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can start having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish 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 therapist in particular i think this does differ by counselor 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and extremely practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however 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 offered to anyone who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of draws especially considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Scandal
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared very strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so