completely honest…Better Help Addiction Therapy… evaluation of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend better assistance and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite simple procedure to get started so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and then you can also change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the cost less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey 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 necessarily the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able 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 phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to understand that all 4 options 3 really to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s definitely good for some people who are possibly a little bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant 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 then you wait for your counselor to sign up with 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want 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 believe this does differ 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 beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely practical and really available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of various methods to meet with your therapist 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 set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of sucks specifically considering that better help 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 mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Addiction Therapy
or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos 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 need to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so