brutally honest…Yalom Betterhelp… evaluation of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy process to get going so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns 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 established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost cheaper for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned survey 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 better aid uses both kinds of psychological health experts 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 first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is great to understand that all 4 choices three truly to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since 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 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 conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you interested in 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 design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and then 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 wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless 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 but i have spent for all of my sessions in advance 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 better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely practical and extremely accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of draws particularly thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Yalom Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared extremely 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 preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so