extremely truthful…Better Help Pause Therapy… review of better assistance i’ve 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 benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last 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 do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite easy process to get going 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 submit what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can also alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you general and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed 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 aid provides both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 options 3 really to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s certainly great for some people who are possibly a little bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uneasy 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 after that you wait on your counselor to join 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 very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and after that 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 issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist 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 spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely practical and extremely available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you tips about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of sucks specifically considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering 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 think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Pause Therapy
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared extremely oddly 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 need to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so