they ask you to develop an account …Talkspace Betterhelp Insurance…and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can also change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that much better assistance offers both kinds of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 actually to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely good for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since 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 sign up with 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 begin having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone attending treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless 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 however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very hassle-free and extremely available for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Talkspace Betterhelp Insurance
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately 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 photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so