extremely sincere…Betterhelp Growth… review of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better aid and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty easy procedure to begin so first you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and then you can likewise alter your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost less expensive for you overall and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better help offers both kinds of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 options three really to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are maybe a little bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 sign up with 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 start having your your conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably 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 speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to 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 therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very hassle-free and extremely accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different methods to meet with your counselor 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 set up they send you both e-mail tips and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that better help 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 imply 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 quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Growth
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared extremely strangely 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so