completely truthful…Dr Abbott Better Help… review of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether i would suggest better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are looking for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty basic process to begin so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can also change your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense cheaper for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better aid uses both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four alternatives three truly to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since 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 wait for 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 start having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very 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 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 paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by therapist however 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 less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and very available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that much better help 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 selling the network however i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Dr Abbott Better Help
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared really 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 choose the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so