completely honest…\”Betterhelp \”\”Woman Telehea\”\”\”… evaluation of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend better help and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite simple procedure to begin so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to create 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 rate and then you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense more affordable for you overall and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help offers 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 set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 options three really to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 await your counselor 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 start having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type 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 therapy what are your counselors 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 comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very available and very convenient for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text reminders 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 however uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing \”Betterhelp \”\”Woman Telehea\”\”\”
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared very strangely 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 photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so