completely sincere…Interview With Better Help Founders… review of much better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my last ideas on whether i would advise better assistance and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite simple procedure to get started so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out 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 speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can also change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay ahead of time which will make the expense more affordable for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid offers both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is great to understand that all 4 options 3 really to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more nervous 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 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 begin having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy 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 address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but 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 much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and very hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email tips and text suggestions 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 efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of draws particularly thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Interview With Better Help Founders
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared really strangely 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 preview of the picture they need 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 in fact creates a line break so