extremely sincere…Betterhelp Save Session… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest better assistance and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite simple procedure to get started so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid uses both types of psychological health experts 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 first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 options 3 actually to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s certainly good for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since 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 after that you wait on your counselor 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 simply a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely 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 much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless 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 less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really accessible and really convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of draws particularly considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Save Session
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so