extremely honest…Better Help 20170210… evaluation of much better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether i would suggest much better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty simple procedure to start so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can also alter your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that much better assistance provides both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 alternatives three actually to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 for your counselor to join and they will connect 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 conference during your first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very 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 problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think 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 paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very practical and really accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text pointers 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 however uh definitely reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely totally 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 platform and the app is not very good 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 offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help 20170210
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared really 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 select the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so