extremely sincere…Better Help Mindfulness… evaluation of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better help and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy process to get going so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense less expensive for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better help uses both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first official 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 however it is good to understand that all four alternatives three truly to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are maybe a bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 wait for 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that 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 problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with 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 think this does differ 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 ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very practical and extremely available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of draws particularly thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Mindfulness
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared extremely oddly 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 have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so