extremely sincere…Betterhelp Therapist Wage… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve 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 advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll 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 right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite simple process to get going so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can also alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper for you general and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid offers both types of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with 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 routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 options 3 actually to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the web 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 therapist to join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference 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 speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor 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 spent 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 biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very accessible and really practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of sucks particularly considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item 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 but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Therapist Wage
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos 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 have to like browse select 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 really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so