and that will make the cost cheaper for you…Josh Briley Betterhelp… general and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid uses 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 conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to know that all four options 3 actually to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy 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 then you wait on 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 begin having your your meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have 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 think among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really available and very practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Josh Briley Betterhelp
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared really oddly 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 need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so