brutally sincere…David Kasdan Better Help… review of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend better help and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are looking for therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite simple procedure to start so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can likewise change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense less expensive for you general and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better help provides both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 really to me however they state it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment 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 after that you await your therapist 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 first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and after that 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 want to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really hassle-free and very available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty challenging 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 few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few 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 use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing David Kasdan Better Help
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared very oddly 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 choose the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so