completely sincere…Betterhelp Live Video… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether i would advise better help and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite simple procedure to begin so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can likewise alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the cost cheaper for you general and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed 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 help provides both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 options 3 really to me however they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are maybe a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 await your therapist 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 during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to address 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 counselor in particular i think this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very convenient and very accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws specifically considering that better aid 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 truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Live Video
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared really 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 image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so