completely honest…Jor El Caraballo Better Help… evaluation of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think 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 after that offer you my last thoughts 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 understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty easy process to get going so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the expense cheaper for you general and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help provides both kinds of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 truly to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 then you wait on your counselor to join 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style 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 comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary 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 cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very practical and very available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of 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 any person who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of draws especially considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Jor El Caraballo Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session images are shared extremely 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 have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so