extremely honest…Betterhelp Beginnings… review of better help i’ve 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 cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better help and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite basic process to get going so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better aid uses both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all four alternatives 3 truly to me but they say it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely good for some people who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uneasy 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 then you wait on your counselor 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 just a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy 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 wish to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe 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 cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really practical and extremely available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally totally 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 opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of sucks particularly thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly 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 Beginnings
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so