brutally honest…Betterhelp Commercial Zipper… evaluation of better assistance 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 benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend better aid and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a pretty basic process to get going so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce 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 reduce the cost and after that you can also alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey 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 think that better assistance provides both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk 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 regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to know that all 4 choices 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because 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 await your therapist to sign up with 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 meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and after that 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 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 cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely practical and extremely accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks especially thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Commercial Zipper
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared very strangely 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so