extremely truthful…Love Being A Better Help Provider… review of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final ideas on whether i would recommend much better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite simple procedure to begin so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed 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 always the case and i believe that better help uses both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four alternatives three really to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous 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 internet 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 therapist 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 meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably 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 deal with and then 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 therapist 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 but i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really available and very convenient for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text pointers 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 however uh definitely effective 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 utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks particularly thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Love Being A Better Help Provider
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos 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 select the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so