extremely truthful…Better Help Psychologist… evaluation of much better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend better assistance and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite basic process to start so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price 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 but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better aid uses both types of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 choices 3 actually to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them unpleasant 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 wait for your therapist to sign up with 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 begin having your your conference during your very 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 want to address what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really available and really practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws specifically thinking about that 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 indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Psychologist
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared really oddly 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 need to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so