completely sincere…Success Of Betterhelp… evaluation of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better aid and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to get started so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged 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 but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can also alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you overall and then based upon 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 counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance uses both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first official conference 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 however it is great to know that all four options three actually to me however they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s definitely great for some individuals who are maybe a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about 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 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 therapist to join 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting 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 problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and after that 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 therapist in particular i think this does vary 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 beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very accessible and extremely convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty tough 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 couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Success Of Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared really strangely 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 photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so