extremely truthful…Sex Therapy Betterhelp… review of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite simple procedure to get going so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can also alter your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance offers both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 options 3 actually to me but they state it’s four are offered and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people who are maybe a little bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because 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 then you await your therapist to join 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 start having your your conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely 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 speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve 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 therapist in particular i think 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 less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really convenient and really available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text tips 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 however uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks particularly thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Sex Therapy Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos are shared extremely 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 need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview 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 press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so