completely honest…Shane On Betterhelp… evaluation of better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my final thoughts on whether i would advise better aid and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite basic process to get started so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out survey 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 much better assistance provides both kinds of mental health professionals so simply 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 very 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 however it is excellent to understand that all 4 options three actually to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are possibly a little bit more nervous about therapy 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 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 connect 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 during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy 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 want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor 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 beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very convenient and very accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks especially 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 utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually 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 Shane On Betterhelp
or talking or messaging during a session photos 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 person can’t see a preview of the image they need 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 do not send it in fact creates a line break so