they ask you to produce an account …Pewdiepie Betterhelp;[…and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey 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 believe that much better help uses both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to 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 routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all four options 3 actually to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 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 during your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy 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 problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor 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 however i have paid 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 better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely hassle-free and very available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of sucks specifically considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Pewdiepie Betterhelp;[
or talking or messaging during a session pictures are shared extremely 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 then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have 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 do not send it actually develops a line break so