brutally honest…Better Help Future Of Therapy Conference… review of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to get started so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that much better aid provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all four alternatives three really to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment 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 after that 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 begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have paid 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 believe one of the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really practical and very available for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of sucks particularly thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Future Of Therapy Conference
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared very 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 need to like browse select the picture 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 extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so