extremely honest…Jodie Killer Better Help… evaluation of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to get going so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense more affordable for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid provides both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all four alternatives 3 really to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s certainly good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since 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 therapist to sign up with 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 begin having your your conference during your 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 address what are your preferences as somebody attending 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 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 issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very convenient and very available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text pointers 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 however uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Jodie Killer Better Help
or chatting or messaging during 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 select the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have 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 in fact develops a line break so