completely sincere…Jor El Better Help… review 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 know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my last ideas on whether i would recommend much better aid and whether or not 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 people who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite basic procedure to get going so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower 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 pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire 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 think that much better aid provides both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 options 3 actually to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals 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 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 for your counselor to join 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 start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy 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 want to address and after that 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 differ by counselor however 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 move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely accessible and really convenient for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that much 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 believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Jor El Better Help
or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos are shared very oddly 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 picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so