extremely sincere…Privacy Betterhelp… evaluation of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise much better help and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or treatment with mental health experts 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 help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can also change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the expense less expensive for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better help provides both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting 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 great to understand that all 4 options three actually 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 nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 then 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 start having your your conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really available and really convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of draws especially thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Privacy Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared extremely strangely 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 choose the picture 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 push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so