completely sincere…Jordan Peterson Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether i would suggest better assistance and whether or not i think 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 trying to find counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite easy procedure to get going so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns 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 produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can likewise change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance offers 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 set up a time to have your first official meeting 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 good to understand that all 4 choices 3 truly to me but they say it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely good for some people who are possibly a bit more anxious about treatment 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 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 for your counselor to sign up with and they will link 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 meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to 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 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 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 biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very accessible and very hassle-free for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you tips about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you already 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 kind of draws especially 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 use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Jordan Peterson Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session images are shared very 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 photo 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 extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so