which will make the cost more affordable for you…Philip Defracno Betterhelp… general and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out survey 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 better assistance provides both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main 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 alternatives 3 truly to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely good for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about 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 on 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 meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference 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 speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want 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 therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely available and very convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text pointers 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 however uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of sucks particularly considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Philip Defracno Betterhelp
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely strangely 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 then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have 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 don’t send it really creates a line break so