brutally sincere…Better Help/The Read… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether i would advise better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite easy procedure to get started so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can likewise alter your choice 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 cheaper for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that better help uses both kinds of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to know that all four options 3 actually to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 after that you await your counselor to join and they will connect 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 determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and then 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 resolve and after that 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 differ 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 more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very available and very convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions 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 definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally free of charge 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 app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws specifically considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help/The Read
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared really oddly 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so