as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper…Betterhelp Podcast Sponsor Call Your Girlfriend…
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist 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 but i have paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really hassle-free and really available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of draws specifically thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Podcast Sponsor Call Your Girlfriend
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so