and that will make the cost more affordable for you…Betterhelp Jordan Peterson… overall and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey 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 necessarily the case and i think that much better help provides both types of psychological health professionals 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 first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four alternatives three actually to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s certainly good for some people who are possibly a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 counselor to sign up with 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 begin having your your conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy 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 issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that 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 differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very hassle-free and very available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of draws especially thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Jordan Peterson
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually 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 after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have 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 really produces a line break so