brutally sincere…Join-better Help-as-a-therapist… evaluation of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better aid and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are trying to find counseling or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty easy process to get started so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you general and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance provides both types of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can set up 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 immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 choices 3 really to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s certainly good for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about 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 after that you wait on 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 meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and after that 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 issues 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 counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor but 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 ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very convenient and extremely available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you already 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 draws particularly considering that much better aid 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 mean 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 cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Join-better Help-as-a-therapist
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so