brutally sincere…Apa Format Betterhelp. (2016). The Future Of Therapy. Retrieved From… review of much better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise much better aid and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty basic process to start so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and then you can also change your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned 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 believe that better assistance offers both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four alternatives three really to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people who are maybe a bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 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 begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to 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 meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very convenient and extremely accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text tips and they send them to you a couple of 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 feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of sucks specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Apa Format Betterhelp. (2016). The Future Of Therapy. Retrieved From
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared extremely oddly 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 select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so