brutally honest…Being A Better Help Therapist… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend better help and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty simple procedure to start so first 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 survey they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can likewise change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you general and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that much better assistance uses both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk with 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 routine call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 choices 3 truly to me but they state it’s four are available and i know that’s definitely good for some people who are perhaps a little bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 after that you await 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 be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment 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 much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that 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 counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time 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 and that makes it really available and extremely practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of draws especially thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Being A Better Help Therapist
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared really strangely 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 need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so