brutally sincere…Macdoesit Betterhelp… evaluation of better aid i have actually 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 advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether i would suggest better assistance and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are trying to find counseling or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty basic process to start so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid uses both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 choices 3 actually to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are maybe a little bit more worried about treatment 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 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 start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then 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 therapist 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 however i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really available and extremely convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established 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 however uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of sucks specifically considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Macdoesit Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared really oddly 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 sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact produces a line break so