brutally truthful…Betterhelp Gabbie… evaluation of better assistance i have actually 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 cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether i would advise much better help and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy procedure to get going so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can also change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is good to understand that all 4 choices 3 actually to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely 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 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 after that you wait for your counselor to join and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that 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 paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed 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 counseling service and that makes it extremely practical and very available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text tips 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 reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks especially thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Gabbie
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately 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 individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so