extremely sincere…Betterhelp Media Kit… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better help and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite basic process to start so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the expense less expensive for you total 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 but that’s not always the case and i think that better aid uses both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak 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 routine call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is good to understand that all 4 choices three really to me but they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable 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 then you await your therapist to sign up with and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by counselor but 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 cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really convenient and extremely accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text suggestions 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws specifically thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Media Kit
or messaging or talking throughout a session images are shared really 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 choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so