completely truthful…Allison Grace Betterhelp… evaluation of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy procedure to get going so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and then you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense less expensive for you general and then 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 always the case and i think that much better aid provides both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all four options three really to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in 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 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 for your therapist to join and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy 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 therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very practical and extremely available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions 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 certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses 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 said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of sucks especially considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect 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 an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Allison Grace Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared extremely 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so