completely sincere…Bobby Burns Better Help… review of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether i would recommend better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite simple procedure to get started so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged survey 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 however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost cheaper for you general and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out questionnaire 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 much better assistance provides both types of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting 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 however it is good to know that all 4 alternatives 3 truly to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 join 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 start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design 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 comfortable 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 deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist but 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 cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really available and really convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it type of sucks particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Bobby Burns Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session images are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can just 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 person can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so