completely truthful…Better Help Size… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether i would advise better help and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are trying to find counseling or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite simple procedure to get going so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey 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 assistance offers both kinds of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak 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 phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 alternatives three truly to me however they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s definitely good for some individuals who are possibly a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 then you await your counselor 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 begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by counselor but 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 most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely convenient and very accessible for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay 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 kind of draws specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Size
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared extremely 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 have to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so