extremely sincere…Betterhelp Pod Save America… evaluation of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether i would advise better help and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are trying to find counseling or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to get started so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense cheaper for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better help offers both kinds of mental 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 set up a time to have your first main conference 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 but it is good to understand that all 4 options 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are perhaps a little bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the web 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 wait on your counselor 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 conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy 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 deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist however 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 ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really convenient and very available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of 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 use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of draws particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the item 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 actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Pod Save America
or talking or messaging during 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 have to like browse select the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so