brutally sincere…Better Help Ad Animation… evaluation of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend better help and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty easy procedure to start so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can also change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the cost less expensive for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned 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 believe that better help provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 choices 3 truly to me however they state it’s four are offered and i know that’s definitely good for some individuals who are maybe a bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since 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 on your therapist 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 start having your your conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really available and very practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect 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 totally for free it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly considering that much better assistance 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 but i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Ad Animation
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared very 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 have to like browse select the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so