completely sincere…Better Help Relationship Anxiety… evaluation of better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether i would advise better assistance and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite basic process to get going so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can likewise change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay ahead of time which will make the expense more affordable 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 counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better aid provides both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference 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 excellent to understand that all four choices three truly to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about therapy 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 web 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 await your therapist to join and they will connect 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 conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the 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 after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very available and really convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect 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 uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks especially considering that better assistance 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 imply i guess they’re offering the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Relationship Anxiety
or messaging or talking during a session images 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 select the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have 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 actually produces a line break so