brutally truthful…Michael 50 Betterhelp… review of better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my last thoughts on whether i would advise much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty simple process 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 counselor so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense more affordable for you total and then 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 therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better help provides both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with 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 routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four choices 3 really to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people who are maybe a little bit more worried about treatment or not interested in 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 then you wait for 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 throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time 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 better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely available and very convenient for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it type of sucks specifically considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Michael 50 Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared very 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 picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just 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