extremely honest…Catherine J. Adams Better Help… review of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether i would advise better help and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple process to begin so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey 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 much better assistance uses both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official 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 but it is excellent to understand that all 4 options 3 truly to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s absolutely great for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 then you await 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 begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your counselors 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 issues 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 however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really available and very hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers 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 however uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of draws specifically thinking about that better aid 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 suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Catherine J. Adams Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared extremely 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 need to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so