extremely honest…Counselor Interview For Betterhelp… review of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better help and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty simple process to start so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay ahead of time which will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that based upon 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 therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that much better help offers both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 alternatives 3 actually to me but they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are perhaps a little bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 counselor to sign up with 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want 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 counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable 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 therapy service and that makes it extremely accessible and extremely practical for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of draws particularly thinking about that better help 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 selling the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Counselor Interview For Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared extremely 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 have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so