extremely sincere…Geha Betterhelp… evaluation 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 long enough to know 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 i would advise much better help and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty easy process to begin so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost more affordable for you general and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned survey 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 believe that better help offers both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 choices 3 truly to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 link 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 conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however 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 but i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really accessible and really hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp completely 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 draws particularly thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Geha Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared very strangely 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 choose the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture 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 don’t send it in fact produces a line break so