completely sincere…Randi Charles Betterhelp… review of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better help and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy process to get started so first 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 complete what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can also alter your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance provides both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up 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 great to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s certainly good for some individuals who are possibly a bit more worried about therapy 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 internet 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 await your counselor to sign up with and they will link 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 first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address 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 think this does vary by therapist 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 beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really available and extremely practical for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly 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 offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently 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 kind of draws particularly considering that much better aid 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 suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Randi Charles Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting throughout a session images are shared really oddly 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 picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so