brutally sincere…Catherine J. Adams Betterhelp… review of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to begin so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can likewise change your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that much better help uses both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 options three really to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are maybe a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them unpleasant 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 wait on your counselor 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone attending 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 conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really available and extremely hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering 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 think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Catherine J. Adams Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting throughout 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so