brutally sincere…Betterhelp Ad Dave Anthony… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest much better help and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with mental health experts it’s a quite easy process to begin so first you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and then you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the expense less expensive for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance uses both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference 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 4 choices three truly to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are maybe a bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 await your counselor 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 begin having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to 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 counselor 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 however i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and very hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of draws especially thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Ad Dave Anthony
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared very 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 need to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so