brutally truthful…Jacksfilms Better Help Apology… evaluation of better help 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 know what are the pros and cons 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 suggest much better aid 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 counseling platform that links people who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite easy process to begin so initially 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 survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can likewise change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive for you overall and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey 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 necessarily the case and i believe that much better help offers both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four options three really to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are possibly a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in 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 after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems 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 counselor 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 but i have paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very convenient and really accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of sucks especially thinking about that better aid 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 imply i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Jacksfilms Better Help Apology
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images 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 sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so