extremely sincere…Better Help [Rice… review of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it long enough to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic process to get started so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce 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 costly but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost cheaper for you overall 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 much better aid uses both kinds of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 alternatives 3 actually to me but they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 on 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 begin having your your conference during 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 wish to resolve what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style 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 much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really hassle-free and extremely available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of sucks specifically considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link 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 quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help [Rice
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need 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 don’t send it actually develops a line break so