brutally honest…Betterhelp Medication… review of better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest better help and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple process to begin so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the cost more affordable for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance offers both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 choices three really to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about treatment 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 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 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 very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor however 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely accessible and extremely convenient for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently 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 kind of sucks particularly thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Medication
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared extremely 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 choose the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the photo 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 don’t send it actually produces a line break so