extremely truthful…Better Help Commercial Abbi… evaluation of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite basic process to begin so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite 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 but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can also change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better help provides both kinds of mental health experts so simply 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 official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 options three really to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely good for some people who are perhaps a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in 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 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 after that you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe 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 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 among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really available and extremely practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few 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 readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely for 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 opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of sucks particularly considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item 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 really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Commercial Abbi
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared really strangely 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 individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact creates a line break so