brutally sincere…Betterhelp Useless… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used 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 offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise much better help and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty easy procedure to start so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help 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 produce 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 rate and then you can also change your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost cheaper for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously 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 necessarily the case and i think that better assistance uses both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 choices three actually to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely good for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since 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 after that you wait for your therapist to join 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 throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably 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 deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist but 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very accessible and extremely hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of sucks specifically thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Useless
or messaging or talking throughout a session photos are shared really 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 have to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview 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 do not send it really develops a line break so