brutally honest…Better Help Senior Director Product Linkedin… review of much better aid 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 then offer you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty basic procedure to begin so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little 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 wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out survey 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 think that better assistance provides both types of psychological 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 regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four options three really to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy 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 therapist to sign up with and they will link 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 throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very convenient and very available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Senior Director Product Linkedin
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared really strangely 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 image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so