extremely sincere…Baby Betterhelp… review of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise better help and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty easy process to get going so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can likewise change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better help uses both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference 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 however it is excellent to understand that all 4 options 3 really to me however they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because 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 after that 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 begin having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment 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 much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist but 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really available and extremely convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of 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 entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of sucks 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 imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Baby Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared very strangely 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 choose the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact creates a line break so