extremely honest…Better Help Commercial Singer… review of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my last ideas on whether i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty basic process to get going so initially you submit an online questionnaire 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 create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the expense less expensive for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned questionnaire 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 kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all four alternatives three actually to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because 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 after that you wait on 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 begin having your your conference throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that 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 counselor 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 paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely practical and really accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text tips 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 however uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already 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 kind of sucks particularly thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Commercial Singer
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared very strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so