brutally truthful…Xxxxx8201 Betterhelp Drew Conn… review of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise better aid and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are looking for therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty basic process to start so first you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better help uses both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to understand that all 4 choices 3 really to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 after that you await your therapist 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 throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely 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 much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish 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 therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very available and very convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite 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 few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Xxxxx8201 Betterhelp Drew Conn
or messaging or talking during a session images 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so