extremely honest…Betterhelp Harvey… review of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise better aid and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite easy procedure to start so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then 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 in advance which will make the expense more affordable for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed 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 assistance uses both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four choices 3 truly to me however they state it’s four are available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some people who are maybe a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 await your counselor 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 throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference 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 resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless 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 actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely convenient and extremely accessible for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call 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 email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of sucks particularly thinking about that better aid 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 offering the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Harvey
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely strangely 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 need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so