they ask you to develop an account …Philip Defranco\’s Betterhelp Debacle: A Response (Narrated By Dantecrysis)…and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price 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 expensive however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly 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 types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 options three really to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s absolutely great for some people who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 after that you await your therapist to sign up with 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 first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy 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 deal with and after that 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 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 less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and very accessible for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions 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 definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of sucks particularly thinking about that better help 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 truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Philip Defranco\’s Betterhelp Debacle: A Response (Narrated By Dantecrysis)
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared extremely strangely 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 choose the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so