brutally sincere…Mark A Message As Urgent On Better Help… evaluation of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty easy procedure to get started so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can likewise change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you total and then 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 believe that better help provides both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 choices three truly to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more nervous about therapy 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 web 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 then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment 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 conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really available and very convenient for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool aspect 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 entirely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of draws particularly thinking about that better help 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 mean 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 cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Mark A Message As Urgent On Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared very 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 select the photo 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 just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so