extremely truthful…Better Help Dr. Al Dirschberger… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would suggest much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite easy process to get going so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help 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 however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can also alter your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay in advance which will make the cost more affordable for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey 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 always the case and i believe that better help offers both types of mental health experts 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 main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all four options 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s definitely good for some individuals who are possibly a bit more anxious 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 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 counselor 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 probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone going to 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 first meeting and after that 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 want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by counselor 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 more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely convenient and extremely accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of draws especially thinking about that better aid 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 indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Dr. Al Dirschberger
or talking or messaging during a session pictures are shared very oddly 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 sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so