brutally sincere…Amy Baucum Better Help Reviews… evaluation of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether i would advise much better aid 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 links people who are looking for therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty basic procedure to start so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help 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 create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you want 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 cheaper for you overall and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey 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 aid provides both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first main 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 excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 truly to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s certainly great for some people who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant 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 on 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 start having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very hassle-free and really available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions 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 however uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws especially thinking about that better assistance 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 think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Amy Baucum Better Help Reviews
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared extremely 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 choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so