completely honest…Better Help Sex Therapy… review of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether i would recommend better help and whether 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 counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty basic procedure to begin so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can likewise alter your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire 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 better aid uses both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very 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 alternatives 3 really to me but they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 after that you wait on your counselor to sign up with 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 start having your your conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with 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 somebody going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely practical and very accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty tough 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 also 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of draws especially considering 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 believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Sex Therapy
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely strangely 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so