brutally sincere…Better Help/Unspooled… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe 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 final ideas on whether i would suggest much better aid and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite basic procedure to begin so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can also change your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the cost more affordable for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance uses both kinds of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is good to understand that all 4 options 3 really to me however they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 after that you await your therapist to join and they will link 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 conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and then 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 problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very hassle-free and really accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of draws especially thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help/Unspooled
or chatting or messaging during a session photos 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 need to like browse select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture 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 don’t send it really produces a line break so