extremely honest…Betterhelp Product Messaging… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether i would suggest much better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty basic procedure to start so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey 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 professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is good to understand that all four alternatives three truly to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are perhaps a bit more worried about treatment or not interested in 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 await your counselor to join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting 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 talk about your issues 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 counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist but 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 ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and very practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently 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 kind of draws particularly considering 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 mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Product Messaging
or talking or messaging during a session images 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 have to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the photo 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 do not send it in fact develops a line break so