completely honest…Better Help Video Sessions… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite easy process to start so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can also alter your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost less expensive for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help provides both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 options three truly to me however they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 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 start having your your conference throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that 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 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 nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very hassle-free and extremely available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your visit so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks especially considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Video Sessions
or messaging or chatting during a session images 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 choose the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so