brutally sincere…Betterhelp Couples… review of better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest better aid and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple process to begin so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will 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 established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and then you can also change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the cost more affordable for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned 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 think that much better aid provides both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk with 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 routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to understand that all four choices 3 really to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more nervous 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 wait on 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like 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 spent for it or however 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 cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and very convenient for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of draws particularly considering that better assistance 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 imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Couples
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so