extremely honest…Better Help Counselor Missed Session… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better help and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite basic procedure to get going so first you complete an online survey 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 quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can also alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost cheaper for you total 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 use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult 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 call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all four choices 3 really to me however they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s definitely good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 await 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 start having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone attending treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor 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 actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry 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 counseling service which makes it extremely convenient and extremely accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established 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 couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of draws especially considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Counselor Missed Session
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared extremely strangely 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo 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 do not send it really produces a line break so