completely honest…Better Help Groupinar… review of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to start so first you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense more affordable for you general and then based on your answers to your questions 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 think that better help offers both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to 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 telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is great to understand that all four options 3 truly to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 after that you await your therapist to join and they will link 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 throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely 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 much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think 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 actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very accessible and really convenient for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text tips 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 certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide 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 extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks particularly thinking about that better assistance 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 suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Groupinar
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared really 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 choose the photo 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 out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so