extremely sincere…Sonya Bruner Betterhelp… review 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 enough time to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether i would advise better assistance and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite simple process to get started so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the cost less expensive for you general 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 utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance offers both types of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to 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 routine call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 choices three truly to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are maybe a bit more nervous 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 web 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 begin having your your conference during your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy 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 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 differ by counselor 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 beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very convenient and extremely accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient 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 any person who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend 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 kind of draws especially thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the item 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 truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Sonya Bruner Betterhelp
or messaging or talking throughout a session photos are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can only 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 person can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so