they ask you to create an account …Internal Server Error Betterhelp…and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay in advance which will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid offers both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four options 3 really to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 then you wait on your therapist 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 start having your your conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably 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 problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist however 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really available and really practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks especially considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering 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 alternatives for screen sharing Internal Server Error Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared really oddly 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 image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so