extremely sincere…Better Help Going Public… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty simple process to start so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out 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 necessarily the case and i think that much better help provides both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is great to know that all four choices 3 actually to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely good for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in 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 on your therapist 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 start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by therapist however 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 think among the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely available and extremely convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your visit so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item 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 actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Going Public
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely strangely 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 picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so