extremely honest…Preston Smiles Betterhelp… review of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether i would advise better aid and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple process to get going so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better aid offers both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with them and you can establish 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 immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to know that all 4 choices three actually to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 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 during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists choices 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 comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish 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 counselor 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 but i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very practical and extremely available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text pointers 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 efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor 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 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 selling the network however i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Preston Smiles Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures are shared very 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 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 really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so