extremely truthful…The Verge Betterhelp… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether i would advise much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are looking for therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple process to get started so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all four choices 3 really to me but they state it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are maybe a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 counselor to join and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can start having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference 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 wish to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really available and very hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp totally 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 viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of sucks particularly considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing The Verge Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the photo 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 really creates a line break so