brutally honest…Better Help/Shane Dawson… evaluation of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve 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 offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest much better assistance and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite simple procedure to get started so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost more affordable for you overall and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out questionnaire 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 believe that better assistance uses both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference 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 however it is great to know that all 4 options three really to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about therapy 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 web 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 for your therapist to join 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 start having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist 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 however i have paid 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 among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really available and really hassle-free for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions 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 definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help/Shane Dawson
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared very oddly 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so