extremely truthful…Better Help Change Therapist… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether 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 understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite easy procedure to begin so initially 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 submit what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can also change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned 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 necessarily the case and i believe that much better help offers both kinds of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult 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 always do video calls however it is good to know that all 4 options three actually to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s certainly great for some people who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 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 start having your your meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely 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 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 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 actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really hassle-free and very available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions 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 effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp completely totally free 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 platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of draws specifically 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 believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Change Therapist
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely strangely 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 choose the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need 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 creates a line break so