which will make the cost cheaper for you…Kristine Vazquez Betterhelp… total 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 utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that much better aid uses both kinds of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first main 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 but it is great to know that all 4 choices three really to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more worried about treatment 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 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 sign up with and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can start having your your conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely hassle-free and very accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of draws especially considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling 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 Kristine Vazquez Betterhelp
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos are shared very oddly 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 have to like browse select the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact produces a line break so