extremely truthful…Betterhelp Closed Networks… evaluation of much better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the right 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 therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty easy procedure to get going so first you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also change your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense less expensive for you general and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better aid uses both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference 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 know that all 4 options 3 truly to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 after that you wait for your therapist to join and they will connect 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and after that 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 problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with 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 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 but i have actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very practical and very available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that better help 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 indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Closed Networks
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely strangely 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek 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 push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so