completely sincere…Matt Cto Better Help… evaluation of better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether i would recommend better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health experts it’s a quite basic procedure to begin so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can also alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned survey 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 think that better assistance provides both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk 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 routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is good to know that all four alternatives 3 truly to me but they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a bit more anxious about treatment 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 await your counselor 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 throughout your very first session you’re most likely 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 resolve what are your preferences as someone going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy 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 deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think 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 actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really available and really practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of draws specifically considering that much better aid 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 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 alternatives for screen sharing Matt Cto Better Help
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared really strangely 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 picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so