completely truthful…Sigma Kappa Betterhelp… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether i would advise better assistance and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are looking for therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite basic process to start so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost less expensive for you total 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 counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both kinds of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to 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 regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 choices three actually to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are maybe a little bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about 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 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 wait on your therapist 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 probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody 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 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very hassle-free and very available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of draws especially 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 link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Sigma Kappa Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared really oddly 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 image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image 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 don’t send it actually creates a line break so