brutally sincere…Insecure People Looking Superior Betterhelp… review of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend much better help and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite easy procedure to start so initially you fill out 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 prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better help offers both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to 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 regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four options three really to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more nervous about therapy 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 after that 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 after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and then 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 resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by therapist however 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 cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very available and very convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of 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 available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Insecure People Looking Superior Betterhelp
or messaging or talking throughout a session images 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 need to like browse select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so