extremely honest…Betterhelp 7 Cups I… review of much better assistance i have actually 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 after that offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would suggest better help and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to begin so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey 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 aid uses both kinds of mental health experts 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 first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is great to understand that all four alternatives three truly to me however they state it’s four are offered and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are maybe a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 wait for your therapist to sign up with 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 start having your your meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have simply 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 preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 after that 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 counselor 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 cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very available and really practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text suggestions 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 definitely efficient and another cool aspect of 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 entirely free of charge 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 app and the platform is not excellent in fact it type of draws specifically thinking about that much 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 mean i guess they’re selling the network but i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp 7 Cups I
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures are shared extremely 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 have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so