extremely truthful…Lessonly Better Help… evaluation of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise much better aid and whether 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 people who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite easy procedure to get going so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can likewise change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned 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 believe that much better assistance offers both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is great to understand that all four options three truly to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about 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 for your counselor to join 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems 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 counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe 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 paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper 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 and that makes it very convenient and very available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text pointers 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 but uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of sucks especially thinking about that much better assistance 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 mean i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Lessonly Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session images are shared extremely oddly 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 then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so