extremely sincere…Online Couples Therapy Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve 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 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 understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty basic procedure to begin so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive for you general and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance uses both kinds of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak 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 phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all four alternatives three actually to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about treatment 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 after that you await your counselor to sign up with and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that 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 interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design 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 comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues 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 counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very convenient and really available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text suggestions 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 effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of draws particularly considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Online Couples Therapy Better Help
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can just 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 preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so