extremely sincere…Betterhelp Garage… evaluation of better help 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 know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better help and whether 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 searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a quite simple process to get going so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate 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 costly but you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive 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 use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better assistance uses both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all four alternatives 3 actually to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since 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 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors preferences 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 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 nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think 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 paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really hassle-free and extremely available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay 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 sort of draws especially considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Garage
or messaging or talking throughout a session images are shared extremely oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so