completely honest…Better Help Trauma… evaluation of much better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better help and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty basic procedure to begin so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can likewise change your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned survey 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 think that better aid provides both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 options 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly great for some individuals who are maybe a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because 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 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 begin having your your conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist 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 actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper 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 assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really practical and extremely accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it type of draws specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Trauma
or messaging or talking during a session photos 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 have 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 out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so