extremely honest…Demi Lovato Better Help Commercial… review of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty easy process to start so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can also alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance uses both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply 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 official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives three truly to me however they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some people who are possibly a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 sign up with 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 start having your your conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely available and very practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly 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 utilizes betterhelp totally 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 viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks specifically thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Demi Lovato Better Help Commercial
or messaging or talking throughout a session images are shared extremely oddly 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so