which will make the expense more affordable for you…Betterhelp Mental Illness Happy Hour… total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out 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 believe that better aid offers both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 alternatives three actually to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s certainly good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in 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 then you wait for your counselor to join 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 start having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy 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 deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that 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 differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very practical and very accessible for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks 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 utilize to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Mental Illness Happy Hour
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 have to like browse select the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so