brutally honest…Tracy Bell Betterhelp… evaluation of much better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time 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 ideas on whether or not i would advise better aid and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite simple process to get started so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey 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 but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can also change your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the cost more affordable for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously 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 believe that better aid provides both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 alternatives 3 really to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because 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 join 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 begin having your your conference during 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 thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and after that 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 issues and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist but 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really available and really hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text tips 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 but uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent 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 utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Tracy Bell Betterhelp
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the picture 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 really develops a line break so