and that will make the cost more affordable for you…Teladoc Acquired Betterhelp… overall and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better assistance offers both types of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all four alternatives three truly to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 after that you wait for your therapist 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 during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style 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 much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist but 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 in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very convenient and really available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge 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 excellent in fact it sort of sucks specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network but i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Teladoc Acquired Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the photo 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 in fact creates a line break so