completely honest…Betterhelp While Doing Normal Theraphy… evaluation of better help i have actually 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 walk you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether i would recommend much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite easy procedure to begin so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you wish 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 cheaper for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions 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 but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better aid uses both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak 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 telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is good to understand that all four options 3 actually to me however they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some people who are perhaps a little bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about 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 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 for your therapist to sign up with 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone attending treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand 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 greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and extremely hassle-free for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks particularly considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp While Doing Normal Theraphy
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared really oddly 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 image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so