brutally sincere…Betterhelp Podcast Sponsor… review of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty easy process to start so first you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better aid uses both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 choices three actually to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s definitely helpful for some people who are possibly a little bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in 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 web 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 begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address 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 therapist in particular i think this does vary by therapist 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 carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely convenient and extremely available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of draws specifically thinking about that better aid 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 mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Podcast Sponsor
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared really strangely 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 need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so