completely sincere…Gibi Better Help… review of much better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether i would advise better aid and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty easy procedure to get going so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly 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 believe that much better assistance offers both types of mental health experts 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 first official meeting 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 but it is good to know that all 4 options 3 truly to me but they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are maybe a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 after that you wait on 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 throughout your very first session you’re most likely 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 choices as somebody attending treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless 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 however i have paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely available and really practical for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of 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 anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of sucks particularly considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Gibi Better Help
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the photo 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 just extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so