brutally honest…Better Help Concessions… review of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise much better assistance 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 connects people who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite easy process to begin so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire 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 believe that much better assistance provides both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk with them and you can establish 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 but it is good to understand that all 4 options three truly to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant 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 therapist to join 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 conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists choices 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 comfy 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 wish to deal with and then 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 counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely available and very practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Concessions
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared really 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 select the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so