extremely truthful…Betterhelp David Kasdan… review of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether i would suggest much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to begin so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and after that you can also alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better help offers both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference 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 understand that all four options three actually to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 wait for 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 conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor 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 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 better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really hassle-free and very accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient 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 free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of draws especially thinking about 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 imply i guess they’re selling the network however 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 choices for screen sharing Betterhelp David Kasdan
or messaging or talking throughout a session images are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need 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 produces a line break so