extremely truthful…Alon Matas Better Help… evaluation of better aid i’ve been using 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 stroll you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether i would advise much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite easy procedure to get started so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your questions 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 help offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so just 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 very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to know that all 4 alternatives 3 really to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly great for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about 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 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 start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and after that 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 attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist 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 in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really available and very hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks specifically thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Alon Matas Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session photos are shared extremely strangely 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek 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 press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so