completely sincere…Josh Flowers 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 used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend better assistance and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite easy procedure to start so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help uses both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all four options 3 actually to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are possibly a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 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 start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and then 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 want to deal with 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 counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very accessible and very practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text suggestions 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 efficient 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 uses betterhelp completely free of charge 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 platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Josh Flowers Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared very strangely 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 choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the picture 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 do not send it in fact produces a line break so