brutally honest…Oren Frank Betterhelp… review of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend better assistance 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 individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty basic process to start so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire 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 always the case and i think that much better assistance offers both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with 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 routine call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all four options 3 actually to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are maybe a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 for 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 throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply 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 choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design 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 much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed 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 counseling service and that makes it extremely accessible and extremely practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of 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 readily available to any person who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of draws particularly considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Oren Frank Betterhelp
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared very strangely 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact produces a line break so