brutally honest…Hiring For Better Help… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better help and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite easy process to start so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can likewise alter 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 and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall and then based upon 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 however that’s not always the case and i think that much better help uses both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist 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 telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four options 3 really to me but they say it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about therapy 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 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 then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting 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 address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very convenient and really available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of sucks particularly thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Hiring For Better Help
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared really oddly 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 after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so