brutally honest…How To Change Therapist On Betterhelp… review of better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise much better aid and whether or not 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 people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty easy procedure to get started so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that 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 then you can also change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire 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 much better help uses both types of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official 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 but it is great to understand that all four alternatives 3 really to me but they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s absolutely great for some people who are maybe a little bit more worried about treatment 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 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 start having your your meeting throughout your 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 wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference 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 wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really available and extremely convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks particularly considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network but i believe truly 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 How To Change Therapist On Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures 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 need to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely 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