they ask you to develop an account …Jeri Marshall Betterhelp.Com…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 then you can likewise change your preference on how often
you want 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 less expensive for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better help offers both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four options three really to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uneasy 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 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 first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone attending treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that 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 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 however i have 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 think among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very practical and very accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it type of sucks especially considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Jeri Marshall Betterhelp.Com
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared extremely 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 have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need 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 don’t send it actually produces a line break so