completely sincere…Better Help Vs Better… evaluation of much better help 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 benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final thoughts on whether i would advise better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to get going so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you general and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey 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 always the case and i think that better help offers both kinds of mental health experts so simply 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 first main meeting 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 but it is good to know that all four choices 3 actually to me but they state it’s four are offered and i know that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in 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 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 start having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design 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 deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely accessible and extremely convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established 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 couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Vs Better
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared really strangely 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 photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so