brutally honest…Sending Long Messages On Betterhelp… review of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used 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 provide you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest much better help and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite easy procedure to start so first you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can likewise change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better help provides both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk 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 telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to know that all four choices 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s certainly good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uneasy 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 await your counselor to sign up with 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 begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely 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 want to resolve what are your choices as someone attending treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference 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 want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however 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 think among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really accessible and really practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws particularly considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Sending Long Messages On Betterhelp
or messaging or talking during a session photos 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 choose the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact creates a line break so