extremely truthful…Betterhelp Israel… review of much better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite easy process to start so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based upon 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 counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better help offers both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four options 3 truly to me however they state it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely great for some people who are maybe a little bit more anxious about therapy 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 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 counselor to join 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 conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that 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 wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really accessible and extremely hassle-free for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws specifically thinking about that much better assistance 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 imply i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Israel
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared very oddly 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need 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 really creates a line break so