completely sincere…Bh Betterhelp… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better help and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty basic process to begin so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire 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 better assistance offers both kinds of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult 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 phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 truly to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are maybe a bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 then you wait for your therapist to join and they will connect 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 first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody 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 very first conference 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 issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think 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 paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really available and really convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite challenging 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 likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of sucks 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 utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Bh Betterhelp
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared very strangely 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 picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have 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 don’t send it really develops a line break so