brutally sincere…The Betterhelp Voice… evaluation of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend much better assistance and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are searching for therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite simple process to begin so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can likewise change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay in advance which will make the cost less expensive for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed questionnaire 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 believe that much better help uses both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference 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 however it is great to know that all 4 choices 3 actually to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since 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 after that you wait for 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 begin having your your conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting 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 discuss your problems 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 however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very available and very convenient for most 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 message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of sucks especially thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network but i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing The Betterhelp Voice
or messaging or talking during a session pictures 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 have to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so