extremely truthful…Better Help Counseling & Therapy… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used 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 thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite easy process to get going so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can also alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the expense less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance provides both kinds of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your 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 but it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 really to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s certainly good for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because 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 then you wait for your counselor to join 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 simply a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely available and really convenient for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text pointers 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 certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws especially thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however 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 Counseling & Therapy
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so