brutally sincere…Jeri Marshall Betterhelp.Com… review of better aid i have actually 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 cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic process to get going so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can also change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall 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 therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better aid offers both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference 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 however it is excellent to know that all 4 alternatives 3 actually to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are maybe a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 sign up with 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 start having your your conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by counselor 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 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 much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very convenient and very accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of 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 use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of draws especially thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network but i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Jeri Marshall Betterhelp.Com
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared very 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 have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so