extremely truthful…Better Help Kandyce Garth… evaluation of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe 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 then offer you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest 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 links individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty simple process to get started so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can likewise change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the cost less expensive for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously 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 professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with 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 call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four choices three actually to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s certainly great for some individuals who are possibly a bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 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 begin having your your meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really convenient and really available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of sucks 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 believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Kandyce Garth
or messaging or talking throughout a session photos are shared really oddly 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 have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so