completely honest…Better Help Therapy For All… evaluation of better assistance 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 understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i believe 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 trying to find therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite basic process to begin so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance offers both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all four choices three truly to me but they state it’s four are offered and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people who are maybe a little bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant 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 wait on your therapist 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 begin having your your conference throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely available and really practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Therapy For All
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared really oddly 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 choose the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so