extremely sincere…Better Help Inc… evaluation of better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether i would advise much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are looking for therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty easy procedure to begin so first you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can also change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost less expensive for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions 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 however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance uses both types of mental health experts so just 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 main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 alternatives three actually to me but they state it’s four are available and i know that’s certainly great for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design 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 comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much 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 counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely hassle-free and extremely available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite tough 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 likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient 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 anyone who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Inc
or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so