and that will make the expense cheaper for you…Philipd Efanco Betterhelp… total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better help offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 actually to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 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 most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor 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 but i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very convenient and really available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of draws specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Philipd Efanco Betterhelp
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared really 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 choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so