brutally honest…Better Help Summer Position… evaluation of better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest better assistance and whether or not 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 looking for therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite basic procedure to get started so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can also change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey 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 think that better assistance provides both types of psychological health professionals so just 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 very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 really to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely good for some individuals who are maybe 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 internet 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 sign up with 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 meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference 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 problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor 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 but i have paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very available and really hassle-free for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws specifically considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Summer Position
or messaging or chatting throughout a session images are shared really 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 have to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so