completely truthful…Jennifer Manning Better Help… evaluation of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest better help and whether or not i think 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 searching for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty simple process to begin so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop 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 decrease the cost and after that you can likewise change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that 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 counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better assistance offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to know that all four choices 3 actually to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 on 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 start having your your meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the 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 then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely practical and very accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra cost 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 very good in fact it sort of sucks particularly considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Jennifer Manning Better Help
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared extremely oddly 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 need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so