extremely honest…Betterhelp Language… evaluation of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would suggest much better help and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite basic procedure to get started so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite 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 decrease the cost and then you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the expense cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance uses both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is good to understand that all four alternatives three really to me however they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s definitely great for some people who are maybe a little bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 then 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 then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably 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 deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless 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 spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and very convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text pointers 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 definitely effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it type of sucks specifically thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Language
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared very 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 select the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so