extremely sincere…Problems With Betterhelp… evaluation of much 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 know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest better help and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty simple process to begin so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the cost more affordable for you overall and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned 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 think that better assistance provides both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can set up 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 immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to know that all four options 3 really to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s absolutely great for some people who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 link 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 conference throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely practical and really available for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone 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 reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of draws especially thinking about that much better assistance 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 imply i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Problems With Betterhelp
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely strangely 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 need to like browse select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they have 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