brutally truthful…Todd Essig Forbes Betterhelp… review of better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty simple process to get going so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost more affordable for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out 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 aid offers both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak 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 telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four alternatives 3 truly to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s certainly great for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 wait on 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 meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference 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 deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely available and really convenient for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult 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 couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of sucks specifically considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Todd Essig Forbes Betterhelp
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared really oddly 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 need to like browse select 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 extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so