extremely truthful…Of Betterhelp… evaluation of better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise much better help and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty easy process 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 complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out survey 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 necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four options three truly to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 then you wait on your therapist to sign up with and they will link 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 first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone 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 very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and after that 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 counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very available and very hassle-free for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of sucks specifically thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Of Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos are shared extremely oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so