extremely honest…Better Help Thread… review of much better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite easy procedure to get going so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can also change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously 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 necessarily the case and i think that better help provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to know that all four choices three actually to me but they state it’s four are available and i know that’s certainly great for some people who are possibly a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 wait for your counselor to sign up with 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 during your very first session you’re most likely 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 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 very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with 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 counselor in particular i think this does vary by counselor but 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 beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely hassle-free and really available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message 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 email tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of draws particularly thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling 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 actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Thread
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures 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 select the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so