extremely truthful…Betterhelp Conference… review of much better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would suggest much better help and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to get started so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can also alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better help offers both types of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 options 3 really to me but they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 counselor to sign up with 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference 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 attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think 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 ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really convenient and extremely available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text reminders 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 however uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort 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 utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Conference
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared very oddly 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 need to like browse select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview 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 do not send it actually produces a line break so