extremely honest…End Betterhelp… review of better aid i have actually 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 benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty simple process to get going so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you overall 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 utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance provides both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to 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 regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 options 3 really to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s certainly good for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uneasy 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 link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely 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 problems and whatever it is that you wish 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 counselor 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 less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very available and extremely convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty tough 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 likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing End Betterhelp
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures 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 photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so