brutally honest…Betterhelp Online Therapy Zoominfo… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether i would advise better assistance and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite easy process to get started so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance offers both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with 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 routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives three truly to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s definitely good for some people who are possibly a little bit more nervous about treatment 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 then you wait on your counselor to sign up with 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 most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor 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 however i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely available and really convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you tips about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws specifically considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Online Therapy Zoominfo
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared very 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 have 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 simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so