brutally honest…Media Relations Campaign To Promote Betterhelp… evaluation of much better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better help and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite easy procedure to get started so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can also alter your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid provides both kinds of mental health specialists so just 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 official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to know that all four alternatives three actually to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about treatment 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 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 on your therapist to join 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 begin having your your meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and after that 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 want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however 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 paid for all of my sessions in advance 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 greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very accessible and really practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite tough 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 also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that much better aid 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 mean i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Media Relations Campaign To Promote Betterhelp
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared really 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 choose the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have 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 do not send it actually produces a line break so