extremely honest…Betterhelp/Kats… evaluation of 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 advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether i would advise much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty basic procedure to get started so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance provides both types of psychological health specialists so simply 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 very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all four options three actually to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the web 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 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 start having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference 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 talk about your issues 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 therapist 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 however i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely accessible and really convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of draws especially thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp/Kats
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared very strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually 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 photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so