and that will make the cost less expensive for you…Facebook Betterhelp… total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned questionnaire 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 think that much better aid offers 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 very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 choices 3 truly to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant 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 await your counselor 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 start having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy 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 attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor 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 but i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and very available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text tips 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 but uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of draws especially considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Facebook Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared very 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 choose the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so