brutally sincere…History Of Betterhelp… evaluation of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether i would advise better aid and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty easy process to begin so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can also change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost less expensive for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance offers both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to understand that all 4 options 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable 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 then you wait on your counselor to join and they will link 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 throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment 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 talk about your issues 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 counselor so with my therapist 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 actually 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 think among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really accessible and very hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email tips and text suggestions 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 but uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra expense 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 excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing History Of Betterhelp
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared extremely oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so