extremely sincere…Bonnie Ray Better Help… evaluation of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better help and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite basic process to start so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and after that you can also change your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the expense more affordable for you overall and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out survey 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 think that much better assistance offers both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 options three truly to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more anxious 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 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 wait for your counselor to join and they will link 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 very first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone attending treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist 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 but i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move 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 which makes it very available and very hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks particularly thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Bonnie Ray Better Help
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared very strangely 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 have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so