completely honest…Better Help Peer Support Groups… evaluation of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my last ideas on whether i would suggest much better help and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty basic procedure to begin so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense cheaper for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned questionnaire 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 believe that much better assistance uses both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to understand that all four alternatives 3 really to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s definitely good for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable 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 await your therapist 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 during your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent 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 among the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely convenient and very available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that better assistance 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 imply i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Peer Support Groups
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely strangely 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 select the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so