extremely truthful…Michael Palladino Betterhelp… review of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether i would suggest much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite simple procedure to get going so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can likewise change your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the cost more affordable for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better aid provides both kinds of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your 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 always do video calls but it is great to understand that all 4 alternatives three truly to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are perhaps 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 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 counselor to join 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 start having your your conference 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 therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very accessible and extremely practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text pointers 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 definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend 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 kind of sucks specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Michael Palladino Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately 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 after that the person can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so