they ask you to develop an account …Www.Contact.Betterhelp.Ca…and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then 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 more affordable for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously 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 necessarily the case and i think that much better help provides both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your first main 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 excellent to understand that all four alternatives three truly to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 for your counselor to join and they will connect 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 meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss 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 therapist in particular i think this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really available and very hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few 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 anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional 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 draws particularly thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Www.Contact.Betterhelp.Ca
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared extremely strangely 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 have to like browse select the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so