completely honest…Better Help Robert Bowman… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty simple process to start so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can likewise change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense cheaper for you general and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid uses both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak 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 always do video calls however it is great to know that all four options 3 really to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment 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 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 wait for your counselor to join 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 start having your your conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that 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 counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very available and extremely practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite 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 likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks particularly considering 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 imply i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Robert Bowman
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo 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 in fact creates a line break so