brutally honest…Out Of The Loop Betterhelp… review of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether i would suggest much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty basic procedure to begin so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can likewise change your preference on how typically
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 less expensive for you general 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 counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance provides both types of mental health specialists so simply 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 first official 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 but it is excellent to understand that all 4 options three truly to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are possibly a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable 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 await your counselor to join 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 start having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know 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 therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish 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 therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but 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 beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really available and really convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text tips 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 certainly 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 available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of sucks particularly 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 utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Out Of The Loop Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact creates a line break so