completely truthful…Nicolesmith-perez Betterhelp… review of much better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise better aid and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to get started so first you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can likewise change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the cost more affordable for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire 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 think that better aid uses both types of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all four options three actually to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 therapist to join 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting 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 want to attend to 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 counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very available and very hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really 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 Nicolesmith-perez Betterhelp
or messaging or talking throughout a session images 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so