extremely sincere…Better Help.Comethany Frankels Latest Rant… review of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend better aid 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 individuals who are searching for counseling or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to begin so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense more affordable for you general and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better assistance offers both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak 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 instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four alternatives three actually to me but they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more worried 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 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 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually 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 most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely practical and very accessible for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of sucks particularly thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help.Comethany Frankels Latest Rant
or messaging or talking throughout a session images are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately 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 after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so