brutally sincere…Jor-el Betterhelp… review of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my last ideas on whether i would suggest better help and whether i think it’s the best 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 counseling or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite easy procedure to begin so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist 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 talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can also change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better help provides both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference 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 good to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 actually to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in 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 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 then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by counselor but 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 less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and very accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty 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 few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few 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 kind of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend 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 sucks specifically thinking about that better help 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 suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Jor-el Betterhelp
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared extremely oddly 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 have to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have 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 creates a line break so