extremely honest…Employment Therapist Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether i would advise better assistance 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 links people who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite easy procedure to get going so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper for you general and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned 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 types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four choices three truly to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some people who are maybe a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 sign up with 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 very first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably 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 deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really accessible and extremely hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody 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 said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of sucks particularly considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Employment Therapist Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared really oddly 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 need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so