extremely sincere…Betterhelp Black Friday… review of much better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise better aid and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or treatment with mental health experts it’s a quite simple process to begin so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey 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 think that better assistance offers both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all four alternatives 3 really to me however they say it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 await your counselor 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 throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment 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 deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist 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 but i have spent 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 one of the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely hassle-free and very available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email tips and text suggestions 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 certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of draws specifically thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Black Friday
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared very strangely 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 have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so