extremely sincere…Betterhelp Not Showing Up… review of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last ideas on whether i would recommend better aid 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 therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty easy procedure to get going so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the cost less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns 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 always the case and i think that better help uses both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 choices 3 really to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 wait on your therapist 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 meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody attending 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 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 want to deal with 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 vary 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 cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very convenient and very available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text pointers 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 efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of draws especially thinking about that better aid 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 offering the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Not Showing Up
or talking or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately 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 after that the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply 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