extremely truthful…Careers At Better Help… review of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually 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 last thoughts on whether i would recommend better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy process to begin so first you complete 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 pretty lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can likewise alter your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly 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 necessarily the case and i believe that better help provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish 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 always do video calls but it is good to understand that all 4 choices three actually to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are maybe a bit more worried about therapy 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 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 then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much 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 spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think 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 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 among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very convenient and very available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of sucks specifically considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Careers At Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared extremely 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 need to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact creates a line break so