completely sincere…Mental Health Better Help… evaluation of better assistance 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 after that offer you my last thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better aid and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a quite simple procedure to begin so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid provides both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to understand that all 4 options 3 truly to me but they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 then 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very accessible and very convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks particularly thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering 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 really 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 Mental Health Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared extremely 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 have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely 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