completely sincere…Crime Junkie 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 enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether i would suggest much better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite basic process to get started so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense cheaper for you total and then 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 however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better aid uses both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four alternatives three really to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy 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 wait for your counselor to join and they will connect 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 during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address 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 counselor 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 spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely practical and really available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks especially considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Crime Junkie Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately 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 really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so