completely sincere…Pre Engagement Counseling Betterhelp… evaluation of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether i would advise much better help and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty simple process to get started so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and after that you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed 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 necessarily the case and i think that better aid provides both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is good to know that all four choices 3 really to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 after that you await your therapist 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 begin having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that 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 problems and whatever it is that you wish to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ 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 ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely available and very practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently 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 sucks particularly thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Pre Engagement Counseling Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared really 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 have to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so