brutally truthful…Clinivc Director Of Better Help… evaluation of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last ideas on whether i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are searching for counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a pretty simple process to get started so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost cheaper for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned survey 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 believe that much better aid offers both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult 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 routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 alternatives 3 truly to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s certainly good for some individuals who are possibly a bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 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 begin having your your conference 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 therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy 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 attend to 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 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 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 believe among the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely accessible and extremely hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of draws particularly 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 believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Clinivc Director Of Better Help
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually 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 image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so