extremely truthful…Bhow To Become A Better Help Practitioner… evaluation of better aid i’ve 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 cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give 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 therapy platform that links people who are looking for therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy procedure to start so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will 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 then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can also change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously 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 always the case and i believe that better assistance provides both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is great to know that all four alternatives three truly to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely good for some people who are maybe a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 wait for your therapist to join 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 begin having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to 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 actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very available and very convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few 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 use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of sucks particularly considering 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 imply i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Bhow To Become A Better Help Practitioner
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared very 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 after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so