completely truthful…Betterhelp Ecounselling… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether i would suggest better aid and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite easy process to begin so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can also change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then 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 however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better help provides both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish 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 but it is great to know that all four options three really to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 wait for your therapist to join 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 start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment 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 conference 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think 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 cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really accessible and very hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool feature 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 totally free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that better help 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 suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Ecounselling
or talking or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared really 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 need to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so