brutally honest…Talkspace Vs Betterhelp 2020… review of much better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized 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 provide you my last thoughts on whether i would advise better help 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 looking for therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a quite easy procedure to begin so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can also alter your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense cheaper for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance provides both kinds of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is great to understand that all four options three truly to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s absolutely good for some people who are maybe 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 web 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 counselor 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 throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your counselors 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 comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist 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 less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very practical and very available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of draws specifically thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product 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 but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Talkspace Vs Betterhelp 2020
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared very oddly 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 image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so