brutally truthful…Better Help Vs Traditional Therapy… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether i would recommend much better help and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite easy process to start so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that better help offers both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 options 3 truly to me however they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since 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 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 begin having your your conference throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference 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 wish 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 believe this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really hassle-free and really available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions 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 definitely reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional cost 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 type of draws specifically considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Vs Traditional Therapy
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared very strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually 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 image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so