brutally truthful…Better Help 50 Minutes… evaluation of much better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve 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 provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite basic process to start so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can also change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able 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 routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 choices 3 actually to me but they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about 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 wait for your counselor to join and they will link 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 throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 attend to and then 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 therapist in particular i think this does differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually 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 believe among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and very convenient for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently 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 draws particularly considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help 50 Minutes
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only 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 after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so