brutally sincere…Micheal Phekpz Betterhelp… review of better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final thoughts on whether i would suggest much better aid and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to start so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can also change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you general and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out questionnaire 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 always the case and i believe that better help offers both kinds of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four alternatives 3 really to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 for your counselor 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 start having your your meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and really accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text tips 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 however uh definitely 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 totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend 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 draws specifically considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean 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 pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Micheal Phekpz Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared extremely 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 image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo 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 do not send it actually produces a line break so