brutally sincere…Better Help Rival… review of much better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve 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 final ideas on whether i would advise much better aid and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are trying to find counseling or treatment with mental health experts it’s a quite easy process to start so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price 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 costly but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey 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 better aid offers both types of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all four options 3 truly to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 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 meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and really convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders 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 but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp totally totally 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 app and the platform is not great in fact it type of sucks particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Rival
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared extremely 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 image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so