completely truthful…Dissinger Reed Better Help… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been using 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 walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether i would advise better help and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite easy process to get going so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can also change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense cheaper for you total 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 however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid offers both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives three truly to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 on your counselor to join 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 after that 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 vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have paid 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 among the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very hassle-free and really accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text pointers 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 definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of sucks specifically considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering 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 alternatives for screen sharing Dissinger Reed Better Help
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared very strangely 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 have to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so