completely truthful…Therapy Groupon Betterhelp… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether or not i would suggest better help and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple process to get going so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create 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 price and after that you can also alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire 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 necessarily the case and i believe that better help provides both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 options 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s absolutely good for some people who are possibly a little bit more anxious 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 web 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 therapist 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy 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 deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think 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 paid for all of my sessions in advance 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 biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely accessible and very hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways 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 hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text tips 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 kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks particularly considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Therapy Groupon Betterhelp
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so