extremely sincere…Nickname On Betterhelp… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite simple process to start so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense less expensive for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better aid provides both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with 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 phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to know that all four choices three truly to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 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 meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor 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 spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely available and extremely convenient for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of draws particularly considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Nickname On Betterhelp
or messaging or talking throughout a session photos are shared very 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 select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so