extremely honest…Betterhelp Eating Disorders… review of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas 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 counseling platform that connects people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to start so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the cost more affordable for you overall and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out 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 always the case and i think that much better aid uses both types of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first main 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 however it is good to know that all 4 choices 3 actually to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s definitely good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since 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 on your therapist 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 start having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy 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 much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however 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 but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very hassle-free and really accessible for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect 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 entirely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of sucks specifically considering that much better help 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 imply i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Eating Disorders
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos are shared very strangely 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 need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so