brutally sincere…Betterhelp.Com Michael Phelps Strory… review of much better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve 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 offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise much better help and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite easy process to get going so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense less expensive 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 necessarily the case and i think that better aid offers both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first main 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 but it is good to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 truly to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about 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 after that you wait for 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 probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the 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 discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address 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 therapist in particular i think this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however 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 biggest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely available and extremely convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective 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 any person who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks especially thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network but 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.Com Michael Phelps Strory
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared really oddly 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 need to like browse select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact creates a line break so