brutally sincere…Better Help Robot Voice… review of better help 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 advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest better aid and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty basic process to get started so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can also change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey 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 always the case and i believe that much better aid provides both types of psychological health experts 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 very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is great to understand that all four choices 3 truly to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 on your counselor to join 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 start having your your meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably 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 want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist 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 spent 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 think one of the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very available and extremely hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however 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 uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend 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 type of draws specifically thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Robot Voice
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared extremely oddly 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 photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so