which will make the cost less expensive for you…Your Mom\’s House Podcast Betterhelp… overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns 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 however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better help offers both kinds of psychological health experts so simply 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 very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 alternatives 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely great for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them unpleasant 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 await your counselor 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 begin having your your conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone attending treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid 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 among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely accessible and extremely hassle-free for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that better help 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 indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually 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 Your Mom\’s House Podcast Betterhelp
or messaging or talking during a session pictures 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 then the person can’t see a preview of the photo they have 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 don’t send it really creates a line break so