which will make the expense cheaper for you…Russel Community Betterhelp… general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better assistance uses both kinds of mental health specialists so just 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 first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is great to understand that all four alternatives 3 really to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 wait on your therapist 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 start having your your meeting 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 thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone attending treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely 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 much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really hassle-free and really accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text pointers 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 but uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of sucks especially considering that much better help 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 however i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Russel Community Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared extremely 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 need to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so