extremely honest…Betterhelp Beautiful Anonymous… review of better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized 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 last thoughts on whether i would suggest better help and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite simple procedure to get going so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can likewise change your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better aid uses both kinds of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with 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 telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 alternatives three actually to me but they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because 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 then you await your therapist to sign up with and they will connect 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 throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist 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 however i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely accessible and really practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of draws particularly considering 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 suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Beautiful Anonymous
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can just 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 individual can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so