extremely truthful…Better Help Kiwi Farms… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to get going 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 pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay in advance which will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based upon 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 necessarily the case and i believe that better help offers both kinds of psychological 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 set up a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 choices 3 truly to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 wait on 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 start having your your conference throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on 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 therapy service and that makes it really accessible and very practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text reminders 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws especially thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Kiwi Farms
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared really strangely 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 select the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so