brutally sincere…Better Help Shapiro… evaluation of better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite easy procedure to begin so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the expense cheaper for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance uses both kinds of psychological 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 establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all four options 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s certainly great for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more worried 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 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 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 start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably 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 wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think 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 spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely accessible and very hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of sucks particularly thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Shapiro
or messaging or chatting throughout a session images are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the picture 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 just extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so