brutally sincere…Better Help The Read Podcastcoupon… evaluation of better help i have actually been utilizing 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 stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final ideas on whether i would advise better assistance and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite basic process to start so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can also change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out 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 necessarily the case and i believe that much better help provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 alternatives 3 really to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s certainly good for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about therapy 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 after that you await your counselor to join 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 start having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to 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 therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely accessible and really convenient for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email tips and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help The Read Podcastcoupon
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared very strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually 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 after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they have 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 do not send it actually develops a line break so