brutally sincere…Better Help Bloomberg… evaluation of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise better help and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty easy procedure to get started so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy survey 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 however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can likewise change your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay in advance which will make the expense cheaper for you total and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out 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 always the case and i think that better help provides both types of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to know that all four choices three actually to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people 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 uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 await your counselor to sign up with 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 begin having your your meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely 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 problems and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however 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 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 beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really available and really practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks 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 selling the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Bloomberg
or talking or messaging during a session pictures are shared really strangely 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 need to like browse select the photo 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 very 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