extremely honest…3 Years Of Direct Clinical Experience Better Help… review of much better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend better help and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic procedure to start so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can also change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance uses both kinds of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk 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 routine call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to know that all 4 options 3 really to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment 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 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 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and then 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 problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and really practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of draws specifically thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing 3 Years Of Direct Clinical Experience Better Help
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely 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 have to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so