extremely truthful…Better Help Photos… review of better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would recommend better aid and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite basic procedure to get started so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns 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 always the case and i believe that much better aid provides both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four options 3 truly to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more worried 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 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 for your counselor 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 meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and really practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of draws especially considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Photos
or messaging or chatting throughout a session images are shared very strangely 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so