extremely honest…Betterhelp Efficacy… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether i would advise better aid and whether or not 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 people who are searching for counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite basic procedure to get going so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better aid offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 options 3 actually to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more anxious about therapy 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 after that you wait for 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 during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference 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 wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very practical and very accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers 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 however uh definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional 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 kind of sucks particularly thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Efficacy
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared really 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 photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so