completely truthful…Rich Lorenzo Betterhelp… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better aid and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite simple procedure to start so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can also alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out survey 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 always the case and i think that better help offers both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able 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 telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to know that all four options 3 actually to me but they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are perhaps a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant 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 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 conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want 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 counselor so with my therapist 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 but i have 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 believe one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely available and really hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different ways 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 quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it type of draws especially considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Rich Lorenzo Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared very 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 select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so