extremely truthful…Better Help Product Messaging… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether i would advise better help and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a quite simple procedure to get going so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns 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 but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better aid offers both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to understand that all four alternatives 3 truly to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are perhaps a little bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely 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 deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish 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 differ by counselor however 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 less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely practical and extremely available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of sucks specifically considering that much better help 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 suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Product Messaging
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures are shared really strangely 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 picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so