extremely sincere…Betterhelp The Read Podcastcoupon… review of better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise better assistance 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 counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty simple process to start so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better aid offers both kinds of mental health professionals so simply 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 very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four choices three actually to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more worried about therapy 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 internet 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 for your counselor 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely 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 want to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist 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 actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really accessible and extremely hassle-free for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions 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 but uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional cost 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 excellent in fact it type of draws especially considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp The Read Podcastcoupon
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared very 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 then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so