brutally sincere…Betterhelp בעברית… evaluation of much better help i have actually 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 benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether i would recommend much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite basic procedure to begin so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the expense cheaper for you general and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out 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 necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance offers both types of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all four options three actually to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely good for some people who are maybe a little bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 then you await 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 meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve 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 comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then 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 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 actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very available and extremely practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text pointers 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 but uh certainly 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 available to any person who uses 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 stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of draws particularly thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i think really 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 Betterhelp בעברית
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek 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 push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact produces a line break so