completely honest…Is Better Help Unlimited… evaluation of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better help and whether or not i believe 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 trying to find counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a pretty basic procedure to start so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a counselor 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 choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and then you can also change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the cost cheaper for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out questionnaire 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 always the case and i believe that much better assistance uses both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all four alternatives 3 actually to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment 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 after that you await your counselor 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 start having your your conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really convenient and extremely available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable 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 any person who uses 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 said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that much better assistance 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 mean i guess they’re selling the network however i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Is Better Help Unlimited
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared very 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 choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so