brutally sincere…Deana Gozder Betterhelp… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized 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 final ideas on whether i would advise much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty easy process to start so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you wish 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 overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that much better aid offers both kinds of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 choices 3 truly to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant 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 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 probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference 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 attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist 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 in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very available and extremely convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of sucks particularly thinking about that much 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 imply i guess they’re offering the network but i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Deana Gozder Betterhelp
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared extremely oddly they’re shared as files and you can only 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 person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so