brutally sincere…Better Help Series C… review of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether i would suggest much better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite easy procedure to get started so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can also alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire 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 think that better aid provides both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is good to understand that all four options 3 truly to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable 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 then you wait on your therapist to sign up with 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 start having your your conference throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your therapists preferences 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve 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 therapist 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 but i have actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and very practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of various methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly thinking about that better assistance 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 suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Series C
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos are shared extremely 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 choose the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so