extremely sincere…Thomas Mattison Betterhelp… review of much better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite easy process to get started so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better help uses both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak 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 call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 options three actually to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are perhaps a little bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about 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 wait for your counselor 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 meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices 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 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with 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 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 ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really available and very practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but 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 anybody who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional expense 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 type of draws specifically thinking about that better help 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 mean i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Thomas Mattison Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared very 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 individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so