completely sincere…Login Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether i would advise much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic process to start so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense cheaper for you total and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out 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 always the case and i believe that much better assistance uses both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your 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 however it is good to understand that all 4 alternatives three truly to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 on 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 begin having your your conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish 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 counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist 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 in advance 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 practical and very accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of draws particularly thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Login Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared extremely 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 have to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so