and that will make the cost cheaper for you…Matthew Santoro Better Betterhelp… total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance uses both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is great to know that all four alternatives three truly to me but they state it’s four are offered and i know that’s definitely helpful for some people who are perhaps a little bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about 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 after that you await your counselor to join 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 start having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist 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 however i have paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very accessible and extremely practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of draws especially considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Matthew Santoro Better Betterhelp
or messaging or talking during a session photos 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 select the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so