extremely honest…500 Months Of Free Therapy Better Help Online Therapy… evaluation of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to understand 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 i would recommend 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 counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite basic procedure to start so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better assistance offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is great to understand that all four choices 3 actually to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are possibly a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 await your therapist to join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe 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 ahead of time 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 much better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really convenient and extremely available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of 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 kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend 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 particularly thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing 500 Months Of Free Therapy Better Help Online Therapy
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can only 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 then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so