extremely truthful…Better Help \”Humana\”… evaluation of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend much better help and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are searching for therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty basic process to get going so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey 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 always the case and i believe that better help provides both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 options three really to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s certainly good for some people who are possibly a little bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 await your counselor to join 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 start having your your conference during your first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very hassle-free and really available for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few 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 anybody who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use 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 an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help \”Humana\”
or messaging or chatting throughout a session images are shared very oddly 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 photo 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 do not send it actually creates a line break so