and that will make the cost cheaper for you…Thomas Mattison Betterhelp… total and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire 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 help uses both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is good to understand that all four choices three really to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are maybe a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in 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 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 first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and after that 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 problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist however 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 more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really accessible and very convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better help 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 really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Thomas Mattison Betterhelp
or talking or messaging throughout 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 picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so