completely sincere…Ashley Alexander Counsellor Better Help… review of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final thoughts on whether i would suggest better assistance and whether or not 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 trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite easy process to start so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create 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 reduce the cost and then you can also change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that much better assistance offers both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 options three actually to me but they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more worried 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 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 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 most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely hassle-free and really accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of sucks particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Ashley Alexander Counsellor Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared extremely oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image 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 really produces a line break so