extremely sincere…Betterhelp German… review of better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my last thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better help and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to get going so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will 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 produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you overall and then based on 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 always the case and i think that much better assistance provides both kinds of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 choices three truly to me but they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are maybe a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 then you wait on your therapist 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 throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know 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 going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist 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 actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and extremely hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of sucks particularly considering 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 suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp German
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared very strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so