completely sincere…Michael Phelps Better Help Ad… evaluation of better assistance i’ve 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 cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite basic procedure to begin so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can likewise change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you overall and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire 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 better assistance uses both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting 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 excellent to understand that all 4 choices three actually to me however they say it’s four are available and i know that’s definitely good for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 after that you wait on 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 start having your your conference during 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 interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to 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 therapist 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 actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very convenient and really available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of sucks especially thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network but i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Michael Phelps Better Help Ad
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so