brutally truthful…Better Help Therapy Commercial Phelps… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better aid and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty easy procedure to get going so first you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance provides both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all four choices three really to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s definitely 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 internet 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 counselor to join 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 conference throughout 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 therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment 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 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 problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really hassle-free and extremely available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips 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 effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better aid 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 mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Therapy Commercial Phelps
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared really strangely 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 need to like browse select the photo then put it in and then 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 don’t send it actually produces a line break so