extremely truthful…Michael 50 Better Help… evaluation of better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether i would recommend better aid and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find therapy or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty basic procedure to get going so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can likewise alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost less expensive for you general and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better aid offers both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is great to know that all four alternatives 3 actually to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are possibly a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in 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 after that you wait for your therapist 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 during your 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 treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design 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 comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want 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 therapist 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 spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and very available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite difficult 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 few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Michael 50 Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared really strangely 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 choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so