completely sincere…Betterhelp Ocd… review of much 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 after that offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better aid and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty simple process to get started so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower 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 however you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense cheaper for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned 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 types of psychological health professionals so just 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 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 always do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 choices 3 actually to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s certainly good for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 therapist to join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist 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 actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really accessible and very convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite difficult 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 couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of draws particularly considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Ocd
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared extremely oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so