extremely sincere…Better Help Yalom… 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 long enough to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether i would advise better aid and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite simple process to get started so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can likewise change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance offers both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to 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 routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 choices three actually to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 wait on your counselor to sign up with 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss 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 therapist so with my therapist 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 however i have paid for all of my sessions beforehand 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 assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really accessible and very practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely for free 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 very good in fact it type of sucks specifically thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Yalom
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so