completely truthful…Better Help Series D… evaluation of better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time 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 thoughts on whether i would suggest much better aid and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know 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 easy process to begin so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can likewise alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the expense more affordable for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions 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 but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help uses both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to know that all four choices 3 truly to me however they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s definitely good for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about 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 web 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 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 meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and really available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra cost 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 kind of sucks especially considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Series D
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures 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 choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview 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 push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so