completely truthful…Better Help Investor Relations… review of better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros 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 recommend better assistance and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite easy process to get going so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can also change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey 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 necessarily the case and i think that better help offers both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four alternatives three actually to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s absolutely great for some people who are perhaps a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uneasy 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 then you wait for your therapist to sign up with and they will connect 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 most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that 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 wish to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but 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 beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very convenient and very available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay 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 sort of draws especially considering that much better assistance 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 mean i guess they’re offering the network but i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Investor Relations
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can just 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 preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so