brutally truthful…Better Help United Kingdom… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time 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 thoughts on whether i would suggest better help and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite 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 quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance offers both kinds of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your 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 always do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 alternatives three actually to me however they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s absolutely great for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and after that you wait on your counselor 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 meeting 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 someone going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment 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 much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very hassle-free and very available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that better help 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 indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help United Kingdom
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so