extremely sincere…Matt Cto Betterhelp… evaluation of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether i would recommend better aid and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a quite simple process to get started so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns 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 types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to understand that all four options three really to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 on 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 first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor 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 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 much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and extremely convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks particularly considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Matt Cto Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared extremely 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 photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so