extremely sincere…Jessicaoutofthecloset Better Help… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would suggest much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite simple process to get started so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite 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 but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey 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 necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid provides both kinds of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very 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 always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four choices 3 really to me but they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can start having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 want to attend to 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 vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely convenient and really available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text tips 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 but uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of sucks especially considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i think actually 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 Jessicaoutofthecloset Better Help
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared really 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 select the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so