they ask you to produce an account …Live Sessions Betterhelp…and after that you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you overall and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance uses both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 choices 3 truly to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant 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 after that you wait on 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 meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to 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 therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and really convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws especially considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i think 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 Live Sessions Betterhelp
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared very oddly 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 choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so