completely truthful…Problem With Betterhelp… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are trying to find counseling or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a quite basic process to start so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete 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 speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense more affordable for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly 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 always the case and i think that better help provides both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all four choices 3 truly to me but they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about treatment 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 for 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 meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone attending treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much 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 nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really practical and really accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders 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 however uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks especially considering that much better assistance 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 suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Problem With Betterhelp
or talking or messaging during a session pictures are shared extremely 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 select the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so