extremely sincere…Fathering Autism Better Help… review of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether or not i would recommend better help and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are searching for counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to get started so initially you submit an online questionnaire 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 lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the expense less expensive for you general and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better aid provides both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all four options three really to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some people who are maybe a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 then you wait for 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor 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 but i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and extremely convenient for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone 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 tips and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product 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 however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Fathering Autism Better Help
or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos are shared extremely 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 image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so