brutally honest…Better Help Roni Frank… review of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise better help and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy procedure to get going so initially you fill out an online questionnaire 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 pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can also alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the cost less expensive for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that better assistance uses both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can set up 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 immediate message i always do video calls but it is good to understand that all four choices three truly to me however they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since 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 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in 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 very first meeting 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 discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very hassle-free and very accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text tips and they send them to you a couple of 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the product 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 however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Roni Frank
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the image 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 very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so