completely truthful…Velma Jones Betterhelp… review of better assistance 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 pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether i would advise better assistance and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite basic procedure to begin so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can likewise alter your preference 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 then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that much better help provides both types of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four options three truly to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are maybe a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 wait on your counselor to join and they will link 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 meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish 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 counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have 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 believe among the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really accessible and very practical for most 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 video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of draws especially considering 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 link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Velma Jones Betterhelp
or talking or messaging during a session pictures are shared very oddly 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 need to like browse select the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so