brutally sincere…Betterhelp Sponsorship… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite easy process to begin so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then 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 likewise pay in advance and that will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better help offers both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is great to know that all four choices three actually to me however they state it’s four are available and i know that’s definitely great for some individuals who are maybe a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 await your therapist to sign up with and they will link 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 during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably 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 much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by therapist 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 carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really convenient and really available for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established 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 couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Sponsorship
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures are shared extremely 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 select 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 simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so