completely sincere…Lydia Ogden Better Help… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my last thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better assistance 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 links individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite simple process to begin so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much 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 after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can also change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based on 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 however that’s not always the case and i think that much better help offers both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 choices three actually to me however they state it’s four are offered and i know that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are possibly a bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because 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 counselor to join and they will connect 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 conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy 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 want to attend to and then 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 therapist in particular i think 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 actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely accessible and very convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of sucks specifically considering that much better aid 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 indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Lydia Ogden Better Help
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared very 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 have to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they have 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 don’t send it in fact develops a line break so