extremely sincere…Joyable Vs Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to understand 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 advise much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite basic process to start so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can also change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed 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 always the case and i believe that better help uses both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 options 3 truly to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some people who are maybe a bit more nervous about therapy 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 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 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with 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 going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and then 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 issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however 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 think among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely available and very practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of draws especially considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Joyable Vs Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared very 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 image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so