brutally truthful…Betterhelp Tiffany Dubya… review of much better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to begin so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can likewise change your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost more affordable for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that much better help uses both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 options 3 really to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s absolutely good for some people who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy 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 join and they will link 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 meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address 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 comfortable 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 address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ 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 beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very practical and extremely accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally 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 opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of sucks specifically considering that better assistance 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 offering the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Tiffany Dubya
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures are shared really 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 then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so