brutally honest…Yalom Betterhelp… evaluation of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better help and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are searching for therapy or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty basic process to begin so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay in advance which will make the expense less expensive for you total 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 utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better aid offers both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is great to understand that all four choices 3 actually to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely great for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more nervous about treatment 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 web 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 counselor to join 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 learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your counselors preferences 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor 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 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 think one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and really practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of draws especially considering that much better help 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 imply i guess they’re selling the network but i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Yalom Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos 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 have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need 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 creates a line break so