extremely truthful…Dont Use Better Help… review of much better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better aid and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite easy process to get started so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the expense more affordable for you overall 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 therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid offers both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to know that all four options three truly to me but they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are maybe a 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 browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and then you await your counselor 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 during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting 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 discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish 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 therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ 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 proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very convenient and really available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders 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 reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely for 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 app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of sucks specifically considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Dont Use Better Help
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview 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 press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so