extremely truthful…Betterhelp Scandel… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether i would suggest much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty easy process to get started so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost less expensive for you total and after that based upon your answers to your concerns 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 always the case and i believe that better assistance provides both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 options 3 actually to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s certainly good for some people who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 on your therapist 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 begin having your your meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and after that 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 problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve 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 believe this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really hassle-free and extremely available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of sucks especially considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Scandel
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared really oddly 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 then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so