extremely sincere…Better Help The Read Podcast… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would recommend better aid 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 counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite easy process to begin so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged 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 reduce the cost and then you can also alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better help offers both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 alternatives 3 truly to me but they state it’s four are offered and i know that’s certainly great for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uneasy 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 await your therapist to sign up with 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting 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 attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist 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 however i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really hassle-free and very accessible for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly thinking about that much better help 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 indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help The Read Podcast
or talking or messaging throughout a session images 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 select the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so