completely truthful…Better Help The Dollop… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better assistance 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 links people who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite simple process to begin so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can also alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better aid uses both kinds of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 alternatives 3 really to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s definitely good for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about 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 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 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 probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve 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 probably 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 deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues 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 however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually 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 one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and very hassle-free for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers 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 however uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help The Dollop
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared very 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 select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so