extremely sincere…Dr Barry Farber Better Help… review of better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are trying to find counseling or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to get started so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create 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 lower the rate and after that you can also change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense more affordable for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned 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 much better aid uses both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk 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 phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four choices three truly to me but they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly good for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then 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 type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that less expensive 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 and that makes it very hassle-free and very available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks especially thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Dr Barry Farber Better Help
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so