completely sincere…Cj Betterhelp… evaluation of much better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my last ideas on whether i would advise better aid and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy process to get going so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can also alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper 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 use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that much better assistance uses both kinds of mental health professionals so simply 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 main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to understand that all four choices three truly to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely great for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 then you wait on 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 start having your your meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment 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 deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor 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 but i have paid for all of my sessions beforehand 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 much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very convenient and very available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of sucks specifically thinking about that much better help 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 quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Cj Betterhelp
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have 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 develops a line break so