extremely sincere…Betterhelp Advertisements… review of much better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether i would advise much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a pretty easy procedure to start so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can also alter your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned 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 kinds of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to understand that all four alternatives 3 really to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more worried 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 browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and then you await your therapist 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 very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely 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 deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid 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 believe one of the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely accessible and extremely convenient for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established 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 certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely for 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 draws specifically thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Advertisements
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 then the person can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really 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