brutally sincere…(7 Cups Of Tea || Better Help || Better Help) + (Deck || Pitch || Business Plan)… evaluation of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are searching for therapy or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite easy process to get started so first you fill out an online survey 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 survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can also change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire 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 think that much better assistance offers both kinds of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting 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 but it is good to know that all 4 alternatives three truly to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are maybe a little bit more nervous 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 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 for your counselor 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 conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your therapists choices 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 comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and after that 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 counselor in particular i think this does differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand 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 much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very practical and extremely accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better assistance 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 mean i guess they’re offering the network but i believe really 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 (7 Cups Of Tea || Better Help || Better Help) + (Deck || Pitch || Business Plan)
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared very 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 then the individual can’t see a preview 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 push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so