completely honest…Betterhelp Ecounselling… review of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise much better aid 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 links people who are searching for therapy or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty easy procedure to get going 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 submit what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better help provides both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main 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 excellent to know that all four choices three really to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s definitely good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 wait for your counselor 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 start having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just 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 preferences as someone attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting 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 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 however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think 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 spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on 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 very accessible and very hassle-free for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text tips 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 however uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra cost 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 very good in fact it kind of draws especially thinking about that 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 selling the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Ecounselling
or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos are shared extremely strangely 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 after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so