extremely honest…Better Help Terrible Podcast… evaluation of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite easy procedure to start so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better aid provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 options 3 truly to me but they state it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are perhaps a bit more nervous about treatment 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 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 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 begin having your your conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody 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 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 discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really available and really hassle-free for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect 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 totally totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws especially thinking about that better help 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 suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Terrible Podcast
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared very 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 choose the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have 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 develops a line break so