completely honest…Betterhelp Peer Support Groups… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe 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 give you my final thoughts on whether i would advise much better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty basic process to get started so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better help offers both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference 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 great to know that all 4 choices 3 truly to me however they say it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about treatment 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 web 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 counselor 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 throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and very practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but 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 offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app 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 offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Peer Support Groups
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so