completely honest…Community & Support Manager Betterhelp.Com… review of much better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better aid and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite basic process to begin so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help 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 then you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed questionnaire 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 believe that better assistance uses both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is great to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 really to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people 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 unpleasant 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 link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that 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 paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable 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 aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and very practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool thing about 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 entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of draws particularly thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Community & Support Manager Betterhelp.Com
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can just 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 then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very 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