extremely truthful…Better Help Therapy Session… review of much better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether i would suggest much better help and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a quite easy process to start so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed 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 aid offers both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 choices three truly to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s definitely great for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 conference during your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much 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 paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe 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 actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed 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 which makes it extremely available and extremely hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Therapy Session
or talking or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared extremely oddly 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 choose the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so