brutally honest…Betterhelp Germany… review of much better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find counseling or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite basic procedure to begin so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can also change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned 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 always the case and i believe that better aid uses both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting 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 understand that all 4 options three actually to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more nervous about therapy 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 for your therapist to join and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone attending 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 comfy 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 wish to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely available and very hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of draws especially considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product 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 but i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Germany
or messaging or talking throughout a session images 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 picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so