completely truthful…Better Help Events… evaluation of much better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better help and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy process to start so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can likewise change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed 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 necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid offers both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak 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 constantly do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 options three truly to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly great for some individuals who are maybe a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy 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 on 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 probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy 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 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 vary 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 more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely practical and really available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty hard 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 few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind 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 mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Events
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared extremely 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview 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 press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so