brutally honest…Dan Savage Better Help… evaluation of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized 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 last thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better aid and whether i believe it’s the ideal 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 counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy procedure to start so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can also change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost more affordable for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed 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 uses both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to 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 telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 alternatives 3 truly to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are maybe a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 on your therapist to sign up with 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 during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody attending treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address and then 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 therapist in particular i think this does differ by counselor however 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 beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and really hassle-free for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool feature 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 uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of draws specifically thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Dan Savage Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared extremely oddly 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 have to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture 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 in fact creates a line break so