brutally sincere…Betterhelp Counsellor… review of better help i have actually been utilizing 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 after that offer you my last ideas on whether i would recommend better assistance and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite basic process to begin so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost cheaper for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out 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 think that better aid provides both types of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is good to know that all four alternatives three actually to me however they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more anxious about therapy 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 internet 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 link 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 get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with 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 therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however 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 among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really practical and very available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text pointers 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 certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of sucks especially considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Counsellor
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually 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 person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so