extremely sincere…Medium Better Help… evaluation of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better help and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite easy process to get started 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 submit what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and then you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid offers both kinds of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is great to understand that all four options three really to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy 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 await your counselor to join and they will connect 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 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 address what are your preferences as someone going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design 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 deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely available and very practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it type of sucks specifically thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link 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 clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Medium Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session photos are shared really 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 then the individual can’t see a preview 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 in fact creates a line break so