they ask you to create an account …Saleha-chowdhury Betterhelp…and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate 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 likewise pay in advance which will make the cost less expensive for you total and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously 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 better aid uses both kinds of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is good to know that all four options three truly to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because 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 then you wait on your therapist to join and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors choices 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 much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist but 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 ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really accessible and very practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email tips and text pointers 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 however uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean 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 quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Saleha-chowdhury Betterhelp
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared really oddly 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image 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 don’t send it in fact develops a line break so