completely truthful…Baby Better Help… evaluation of better assistance i have actually 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 stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest much 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 therapy platform that links people who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic procedure to begin so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can likewise change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the cost more affordable for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned 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 necessarily the case and i think that much better aid offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish 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 know that all four alternatives three truly to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about 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 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 wait for your counselor to join and they will connect 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 very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone attending treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent 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 biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really accessible and extremely practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of sucks especially thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Baby Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session images 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so