brutally truthful…Cognitive Behavioral Therapy On Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better help and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty easy process to begin so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid provides both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 alternatives three truly to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 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 probably going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and then 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 wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist but 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 ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely convenient and extremely accessible for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of sucks particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy On Better Help
or talking 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 after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need 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 do not send it really produces a line break so