extremely honest…Betterhelp Limited Income… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether i would advise much better assistance and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite easy process to get going so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost cheaper for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed survey 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 provides both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak with 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 phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four options three actually to me but they say it’s four are available and i know that’s certainly great for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous about treatment 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 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 therapist to sign up with 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 start having your your conference during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely 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 deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really accessible and very convenient for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text suggestions 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 reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of sucks particularly considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Limited Income
or messaging or talking throughout a session photos are shared very oddly 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 select the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so