completely sincere…Betterhelp Couples Counceling… review of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether i would suggest better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to begin so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist 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 established 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 likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance offers both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can set up 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 constantly do video calls however it is great to know that all four alternatives three really to me however they state it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely great for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about treatment 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 on your therapist to join 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 during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor however 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 beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really convenient and really available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few 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 use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of sucks especially considering that better help 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 actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Couples Counceling
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared very strangely 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 have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so