extremely truthful…Your Mom\’s House Podcast Betterhelp… review of better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether i would recommend better help and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty simple process to start so first you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit 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 discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance offers both types of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak 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 instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 options 3 really to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable 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 for your counselor to sign up with and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely 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 much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and extremely practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of 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 entirely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Your Mom\’s House Podcast Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures 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 picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so