extremely honest…Betterhelp Founder… review of much better help 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 understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my final ideas on whether i would advise better assistance and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite simple process to begin so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can likewise change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better help uses both types of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak 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 routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is great to understand that all 4 alternatives three really to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people who are perhaps a little bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 after that you wait on 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably 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 much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless 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 more affordable rate so let’s carry on 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 and that makes it really available and really hassle-free for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers 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 effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge 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 platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of draws particularly considering that much better assistance 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 mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Founder
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared very 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 have to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have 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 do not send it in fact creates a line break so