brutally honest…Betterhelp Oxford… review of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether i would advise much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite basic process to start so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can also change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you total and then based upon 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 therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better aid uses both types of psychological health specialists so just 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 very first official meeting 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 but it is excellent to understand that all four alternatives 3 really to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely 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 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 then you wait on your therapist to join 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 most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and then 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 problems 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 think this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely convenient and extremely available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text tips 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 reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of draws especially considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Oxford
or messaging or talking throughout a session images are shared very 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 need to like browse select the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so