extremely sincere…Cbt Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my last ideas on whether i would recommend much better assistance and whether 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 mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic process to begin so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can also alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the expense less expensive for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with 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 regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to understand that all four alternatives three really to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 after that you await your therapist 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 begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor 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 however i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really practical and really available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that better assistance 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 however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Cbt Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures 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 select the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so