completely sincere…Betterhelp 45 Min Session… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better assistance and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite basic procedure to start so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can also alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive for you general and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out 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 always the case and i think that better help offers both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to know that all four alternatives 3 really to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 await your therapist to join 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 start having your your conference during your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by therapist but 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 ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very available and extremely convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of draws especially thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp 45 Min Session
or talking or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared very strangely 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 choose the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so