completely sincere…Teen Vogue Betterhelp… evaluation of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend better aid and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite basic process to get started so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences 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 pricey but you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper for you total and after that 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 counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help uses both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four alternatives three truly to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 after that you await your therapist to join and they will link 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 conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment 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 deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really convenient and very available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free 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 excellent in fact it sort of draws specifically 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 utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Teen Vogue Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared really strangely 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 after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so