extremely truthful…Better Help 2018… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my last thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better aid and whether 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 trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a quite basic procedure to start so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can also change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better help offers both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 choices 3 really to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are maybe a bit more nervous 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 after that you await your counselor to sign up with 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy 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 address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really accessible and very practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of draws specifically thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help 2018
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared very 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 need to like browse select the photo 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 very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so