extremely honest…Sigma Kappa Betterhelp… review of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used 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 ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find counseling or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite basic procedure to get going so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete 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 however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can also change your preference on how often
you wish 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 less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey 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 aid provides both types of psychological health experts 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 very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 actually to me however they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that 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 think 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 paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely accessible and extremely practical for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders 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 definitely reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of sucks particularly thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Sigma Kappa Betterhelp
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared very oddly 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 photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so