completely truthful…Youtubers Involved In Betterhelp… evaluation of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty basic process to start so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a counselor 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 discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can also change your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the expense less expensive for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed 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 necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance provides both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able 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 regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to know that all four options 3 really to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about 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 then 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 first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting 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 speak about your problems 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 nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent 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 believe one of the greatest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very practical and extremely available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of sucks especially thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Youtubers Involved In Betterhelp
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos are shared very oddly 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 image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so