completely truthful…Betterhelp/Cpm… evaluation of much better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty easy process to begin so initially you submit 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 pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can also change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay in advance which will make the expense cheaper for you total and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better aid uses both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is great to understand that all four options three really to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 then 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 then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy 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 wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary 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 move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely available and extremely practical for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders and they send them to you a few 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 kind of sessions that are offered to any person 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 kind of draws particularly considering that 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 suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp/Cpm
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared extremely 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 picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have 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 don’t send it actually develops a line break so