completely sincere…Better Help – Oren And Roni Frank… evaluation of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better help and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a pretty basic process to get going so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better aid uses both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives three actually to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 on your therapist 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 conference during your very first session you’re probably 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 participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely available and extremely practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders 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 effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws especially considering 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 indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help – Oren And Roni Frank
or messaging or talking throughout a session images are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have 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 in fact develops a line break so