extremely truthful…Better Help Slow Responses… review of much better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise better help and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple process to get going so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can also alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense more affordable for you overall and then based on your answers to your concerns 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 however that’s not always the case and i believe that better help provides both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 truly to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s definitely great for some people who are maybe a bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in 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 internet 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 sign up with 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 conference throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by counselor 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 more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely accessible and very practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of sucks especially thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Slow Responses
or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos are shared very strangely 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 choose 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 extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so