they ask you to develop an account …Betterhelp Terms And Conditions…and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay in advance which will make the expense cheaper for you overall 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 use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better aid uses both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak 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 routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 alternatives three actually to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s definitely great for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 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 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 get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that 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 therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but 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 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 better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really accessible and really hassle-free for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses 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 stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of sucks especially thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i think 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 Terms And Conditions
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared really strangely 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 sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so