extremely truthful…Better Help Teens… review of better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last ideas on whether i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to get going so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and then you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the expense cheaper for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better help provides both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference 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 but it is good to understand that all four alternatives 3 really to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely good for some people who are maybe a little bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 on your therapist to join and they will connect 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 during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy 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 much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that 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 counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist however 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 beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely hassle-free and really accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of 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 anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of sucks specifically considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Teens
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared really 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 need to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so