completely truthful…Better Help Commercials… evaluation of better help i have actually been using 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 then offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better aid and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty basic process to start so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance provides both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor 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 call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all four options three truly to me but they state it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the web 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 therapist to sign up with and they will connect 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 simply a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody attending 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 very first meeting 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 discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but 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 more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely practical and very accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that better assistance 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 suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Commercials
or talking or messaging during a session pictures are shared extremely 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 need to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have 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 produces a line break so