extremely truthful…Betterhelp Leadership… review of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better help and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to get going so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can also alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned 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 always the case and i think that better assistance provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all four choices 3 actually to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more anxious 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 then you wait for your therapist to sign up with 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 conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ 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 cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely accessible and really hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions 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 certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Leadership
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so