brutally honest…Iprevail Vs Better Help… review of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time 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 ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic process to get going so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance offers both types of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four alternatives 3 actually to me but they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the web 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 await your therapist to sign up with and they will connect 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely accessible and extremely practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra cost 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 great in fact it sort of sucks specifically considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Iprevail Vs Better Help
or talking or messaging throughout 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 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 simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so