brutally truthful…Betterhelp Summer Position… review of much better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend better help and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty basic process to start so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can also change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay ahead of time which will make the cost more affordable for you general and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 alternatives three actually to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely good for some individuals who are maybe a bit more nervous about treatment 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 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 therapist to sign up with and they will connect 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 first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style 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 much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely available and very practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text reminders 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 thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of sucks especially considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i think 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 Summer Position
or talking or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek 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 really produces a line break so