brutally sincere…Betterhelp Android Application… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise better aid and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to get started so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop 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 reduce the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns 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 but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better aid uses both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting 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 great to understand that all four choices three really to me but they state it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 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 start having your your meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very 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 speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish 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 therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely practical and really accessible for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws especially thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Android Application
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared really 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 choose the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so