extremely honest…Better Help Anger Management… evaluation of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros 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 help and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a pretty easy procedure to begin so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can also change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost cheaper 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 counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance uses both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with 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 call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all four choices three really to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uneasy 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 after that you await 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 therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have 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 think one of the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very available and really practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few 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 use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Anger Management
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually 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 preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so