completely sincere…Betterhelp Public… evaluation of better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise better help and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty easy procedure to get going so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out 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 much better aid offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four alternatives 3 really to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are maybe a little bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them unpleasant 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 counselor to join 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 very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much 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 nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ 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 ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really accessible and very hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text pointers 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 definitely reliable and another cool feature of 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 totally free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of draws especially considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network but i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Public
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared very strangely 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 need to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so