they ask you to produce an account …Cancel Betterhelp Membership…and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive for you general and after that based on 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 always the case and i believe that better help provides both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 options three truly to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s definitely good for some people who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 counselor to sign up with 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone attending treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist 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 paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really available and extremely practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of draws particularly thinking about that better assistance 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 indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Cancel Betterhelp Membership
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared extremely 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 select the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so