extremely sincere…Better Help Practice Management… review of much better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized 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 or not i would suggest much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite simple procedure to start so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay in advance which will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out 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 assistance offers both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first main 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 know that all four alternatives 3 really to me but they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s definitely good for some people who are possibly a little bit more worried about treatment 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 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 for your therapist to sign up with and they will link 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 most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary 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 beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very hassle-free and extremely available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite 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 also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool feature 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 for free it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of sucks especially thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Practice Management
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures are shared really 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 have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact creates a line break so