extremely honest…Betterhelp Michael 50… review of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are looking for therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite basic process to get going so initially 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 submit what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help offers both types of mental health experts so just 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 call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all four choices 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s absolutely great for some people who are possibly a little bit more anxious 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 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 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 during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then 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 wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely convenient and really available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp completely for free 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 app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of sucks 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 utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i think actually 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 Michael 50
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek 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 do not send it actually produces a line break so