extremely sincere…Betterhelp Erin Parks… review of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether i would advise better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to get started so first you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can likewise change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned survey 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 necessarily the case and i think that much better assistance uses both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 alternatives 3 really to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s certainly great for some people 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 unpleasant 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 then you await your counselor 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 conference during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by therapist 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 carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really hassle-free and extremely accessible 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 message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Erin Parks
or messaging or talking throughout a session images are shared extremely 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the photo they need 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 don’t send it actually produces a line break so