brutally sincere…Betterhelp David Dobrik… evaluation of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better help and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty easy procedure to start so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can likewise change your preference 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 more affordable for you general and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better help provides both kinds of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all four alternatives three actually to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly great for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 wait on 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 during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment 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 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 wish to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but 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 beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really hassle-free and really accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established 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 however uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of draws particularly considering that much 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 suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp David Dobrik
or talking or messaging during a session images 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 select the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so